Upgrading net-im/mastodon

[TjPhysicist]

I have a solo server i'm hosting mastodon on. Thus far i've been using the pkg version but it's now stuck on 4.3.6 (latest version as of writing is 4.5). I see servers like bsd.cafe are runnning the latest version, so my question is:

What do i do now? Last time I upgraded from a really old version i had to start all over, i was unable to continue using my old account etc.

1. The easiest thing would be to update the distinfo and Makefile for 4.5? Just edit a few lines in the pkg files and build it should build up 4.5?
   1. i don't mind adopting the port but i'm not sure i'm up for it. doesn't seem too complex for this particular port?
   2. WHere am i getting the timestamp number from? Ideally i'd find the hash directly from mastodon but i can't seem to find that on the github either?
2. As I said, i'd like to make it as painless as possible and i'm sort of worried as every time i have upgraded mastodon I've had a lot of trouble getting it start up again (when i went from 4.2 to 4.3 I was unable to use my old databases so i had to recreate everything from scratch).

Anyone have experience with running mastodon on FreeBSD, any guides on what you're doing? or just using git without pkg?

 

[POSIX.1]

TjPhysicist there is PR 290097 and the good news so far is, that people are actually working on it.
If you are in a hurry get the latest attachment there and try to build locally.
In many cases that works, while porting takes more time and effort for reasons.

 

[TjPhysicist]

Oh awesome. Thank you. I'll wait. I managed to build it on my own but I'm scared to install, when I went from 4.3 to 4.3.6 I had to manually migrate my pgsql database and i'd rather not lose that again since this is a production server I use often.
And thank you in advance to all who end up fixing the port.