On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 20:27:37 -0800,
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb(a)znmeb.net> wrote:
PostgreSQL is a good example - 9.4 is in the release candidate stage
right now and will probably be declared stable within a month. If it
doesn't at least make it into updates-testing before F22, I'll be
adding 9.4 from the PostgreSQL project's RPM repos or building it from
source. I need a major new feature - Binary indexable JSON storage.
GDAL and QGIS are other examples; I ran for a couple of months
building gdal 1.11.0 from source and installing QGIS from non-Fedora
repos because I needed those features and they weren't in
updates-testing.
In the past Postgresql has not been updated during a release. Typically
the new Postgresql version had to be out by the Fedora beta of the
release it first appeared in. So mostly likely Postgresql 9.4 will never
be a normal update for F21. There is an option to make it a copr, but
I think that Postrgesql makes compatible RPMs for people that what to
run specific versions regardless of what comes with a distro.
Postgresql is a special case though, because upgrading a database is
something that needs a lot of caution.