Re: PG 15 downloads

Hi

On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 at 10:14, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:

> Re: Andres Freund
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw the following comment
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33194755
> > > Just some feedback for releases of any software: I think apt sources
> and
> > > repositories should be ready to go on launch and PR-release so people
> can
> > > immediately use the new version. Looks like that's going to take 2-3
> > > days. Sources are available but that's not something most people want
> to
> > > delve in with make files and dependencies. Something like postgres is
> > > huge. Right now, if you go to downloads and expect postgresql-15
> available,
> > > it is not; lot of people on IRC and elsewhere on Twitter are confused
> where
> > > to download postgresql-15. I know that takes time, so the PR release
> should
> > > just be delayed until apt sources are ready. May be also docker
> > > repositories.
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been asking for some way to be able to stop syncing the apt repo
> from the repository master host so I can prepare the release, and then
> have the release people grab it from there. But that was never
> implemented, so things still rely on me being available to
> synchronously do the required steps, which is obviously not optimal.
>

Yeah, unfortunately that's not entirely straightforward to implement.

Devrim handles this problem with an email to the sysadmin team, who can
disable and later re-enable yum sync. It's a minor PITA, but it works.

>
> > Unfortunately it does look like our debian / ubuntu packages are still
> at 15
> > rc2.
>
> I wasn't around yesterday, so I'm preparing the 15.0 packages now.
> Will take an hour from now or so.
>
> Christoph
>

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