On 2004-07-09 15:43:38 +0100 Jenny Hopkins Jenny@toby-churchill.com wrote:
In the case of PostgreSQL you can just compile it yourself as it has tools to enable you to upgrade your data stores built in.
I've been advised in the past that the trouble with compiling yourself in a debian system is that it breaks the integrity of the package system: do you mean here that you compile it and it kind of stays in sync with the apt system?
You can compile the latest debian packages on a stable system yourself. In the simplest case, you add a deb-src line for unstable to your sources.list, have installed things like debhelper and then run "apt-get source --build <packagename>".
Of course, things are hardly ever that simple and this is what the "backport" sources on www.apt-get.org spend most of their time dealing with. It can quickly become very complicated, so keep logbooks if you start trying to do this yourself. Do not build and test on a production machine if at all possible.