Has anyone played with packaging things up for the VMWare Player? Could be an easy way (at least approach -- perhaps find OS equivalent to VM) to have things that would work multiple OS's. The VMWare Player stuff that I've played with has been pretty slick.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">raghavan</b> <<a href="mailto:raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp">raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Jody,<br><br>Jody Garnett wrote:<br>> Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:<br>>> Amongst the OSGEO software projects, the CD contains all packages<br>>> expect GeoTools and MapGuide OS. Maybe in future release we can
<br>>> include them too.<br>> Cool, we have published a PostGIS, GeoServer, MapBuilder, uDig stack<br>> on conference CDs before. GeoTools is a bit hard to include in a stack<br>> by itself as it is only a library.
<br><br>What distribution did you use to make<br>the conference CD?<br><br>Our idea of a stack is to have to binary<br>packages (in our case RPM) but also necessary development<br>libraries that enable users to recompile RPM packages
<br>if necessary. A little tweaking (version change etc.)<br>of RPM spec files allows updated OSGeo software to be<br>packaged on the users machine.<br>This way, we think that our CD would useful to a user as<br>well as developers (who use mandriva 2006).
<br><br>In developing the CD, we have recompiled SRPM packages derived<br>from various sources on Mandriva Linux after making some changes<br>in the RPM spec files.<br><br>PostGIS rpm is included in the CD. Have been trying to find
<br>a Geoserver Source RPM. If you have already created the RPM<br>pl. let us know. we can try if the package would work on<br>Mandriva 2006.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Venka<br><br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------
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