Re: Postgres upgrade from 12 to 13 - anyway to fetch EOL package?

From: <list_freebsd_at_bluerosetech.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:19:56 UTC
On 2025-07-10 1:55, Kaya Saman wrote:
> I've recently updated my servers to 13.5 and now I'm updating all the @ports
> 
> 
> I have a jail with postgres installed but forgot to check
> /usr/ports/UPDATING for the upgrade procedure.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a location with obsolete packages so I can
> grab the pg12 package?
> 
> 
> According to UPDATING I need both of these:
> 
> 
>     # pkg create postgresql12-server postgresql12-contrib
>     # tar xf postgresql12-server-12.8.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
>     # tar xf postgresql12-contrib-12.8.pkg -C /tmp/pg-upgrade
> 
> 
> Or is there another solution to get my databases upgraded?

Check to see if you have the old pkgs in /var/cache/pkg

If not, you can look up when databases/postgresql12-* was deleted from 
the tree, check out ports at the commit just before that, make stage 
package, unpack as needed.