Thread: pgBackRest 2.45

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:10 AM Stefan Fercot
<stefan.fercot@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> pgBackRest 2.45 has been released last week: https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/releases/tag/release%2F2.45
>
> Have you planned to update the packages?
>
> Many thanks in advance!

Hi Stefan,

Not sure if anybody else has replied yet, but I just took a look at
this. I can see that the Debian source package has been updated to
2.45 [1], however Debian is in a hard freeze at the moment so I don't
think this has been uploaded to testing/Bookworm. Looking at the
Jenkins pipeline for building the pgdg binary packages [2], it looks
like there is a build failure on Ubuntu bionic (18.04) for ppc64el. I
suspect that until this build error is fixed, the package won't be
published.

-- Bradford


[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/pgbackrest/-/commit/0745aa79f78eaf1490080e958f57fe1e919d7e5d
[2]: https://pgdgbuild.dus.dg-i.net/job/pgbackrest-binaries/

On 3/29/23 23:27, Bradford Boyle wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:10 AM Stefan Fercot
> <stefan.fercot@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>> pgBackRest 2.45 has been released last week: https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/releases/tag/release%2F2.45
>>
>> Have you planned to update the packages?
> 
> Not sure if anybody else has replied yet, but I just took a look at
> this. I can see that the Debian source package has been updated to
> 2.45 [1], however Debian is in a hard freeze at the moment so I don't
> think this has been uploaded to testing/Bookworm. Looking at the
> Jenkins pipeline for building the pgdg binary packages [2], it looks
> like there is a build failure on Ubuntu bionic (18.04) for ppc64el. I
> suspect that until this build error is fixed, the package won't be
> published.

FWIW, we discussed this [1] and decided there was nothing to be done for 
Ubuntu 18.04 since the issue is due to a compiler bug with no easy fix. 
Since Ubuntu 18.04 is EOL at the end of the month it doesn't seem worth 
spending a lot of time on it.

I thought the plan was to exclude Ubuntu 18.04 for 2.45 but perhaps the 
maintainers are just letting the clock run out instead.

Regards,
-David

[1] https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest/issues/2035

> I thought the plan was to exclude Ubuntu 18.04 for 2.45 but perhaps the
> maintainers are just letting the clock run out instead.

I think the only blocker right now is the combination of distribution (bionic)
and architecture (ppc64el). I think we can add a filter to the job
configuration to exclude this particular combination and unblock publishing
pgbackrest for other distributions and architectures. It seems like this has
already been done [1] by excluding all of bionic. Looking at other filters in
the job configuration, I think it could be done with a more selective filter

'!(architecture=="ppc64el" && distribution=="bionic")'

Regards,
-- Bradford

[1]: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgapt.git;a=commit;h=2946465ad2bc0dff17261dd317a92a7e374985a2