GDAL 1.7.3 / Java software and repos (was Re: [El] imageio-ext)

[Ralph Apel]

Yes, gdal-java can be split off.
But the names of the native shared libs expected by the Java components
are equal for unpatched gdal-java and for the patched one.
So there would be two mutually exclusive gdal-java packages.

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 11:10 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > EL/ELGIS 5 : Keep as its is, more stable
> > ELGIS PLUS : We can play around
> 
> (I will just be talking of EL/EPEL/ELGIS 5 here)
> 
> Just to clarify the various ELGIS repos as they currently stand:
> - elgis: depends on epel, does not require to upgrade base
> - elgis-plus: does require to upgrade base
> then for each there is a testing/staging repo (elgis-testing and
> elgis-plus-testing).
> 
> With regard to GDAL, there are two perspectives:
> - all the complex stuff with Java we are talking about
> - but also simply that we want an up to date GDAL for all the other apps
> 
> For me, the second point has a clear priority (even though I have very
> interested in progress on the first one).
> It is just that the applications in production need to be updated
> safely and quickly.
> 
> I did not upgrade the current ELGSI GDAL from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3 when it
> was released, in order to let Ralph and Viji work on a new packaging.
> But now we need to get a simple, safe and not-updating-base GDAL 1.7.3
> out of this.
> 
> This package can then be deployed either to EPEL 5 or ELGIS 5, this is
> transparent since ELGIS is on top of EPEL.
> (there is just the issue of the geos and proj versions in EPEL 5 to
> discuss, so in the short term we would probably push it to
> elgis-testing, so that people can upgrade quickly to GDAL 1.7.3).
> 
> So, if I well understand Viji's analysis, we "just" need to create a
> separate gdal-java package.
> Then we will host it in ELGIS Plus where we will be more flexible.
> 
> @Ralph: do you think that you can split up the current GDAL spec file
> and create a new one for gdal-java? I can give it a try if you don't
> have time to work on this anymore.