[ELGIS] Introduction of Enterprise Linux GIS 6 - Latest stable versions of geos, geotiff, GDAL, postgis, gpsbabel, GRASS, QGIS in elgis-6-testing

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini mauricio.zambrano at jrc.ec.europa.eu
Wed Sep 14 07:32:20 EDT 2011


Thank you very much Mathieu and all of you that made this possible !

All the best,

Mauricio

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"A mother is she who can take the place of all others
  but whose place no one else can take."
(Cardinal Mermillod)
Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ELGIS repositories for RHEL/CentOS/SL 6 have been introduced.
> For the time being, packages are only available in testing and for x86_64.
> 
> The latest stable versions of our "core" packages have been built
> (except MapServer, see below):
> - geos 3.3.0
> - libgeotiff 1.3.0
> - gdal 1.8.1
> - postgis 1.5.3
> - gpsbabel 1.4.2
> - grass 6.4.1
> - qgis 1.7.0
> 
> Please note that the versions of geos, libgeotiff, gdal, gpsbabel and
> qgis are higher than those currently available in EPEL/ELGIS 5.
> 
> # TESTING IT
> sudo rpm -Uvh http://elgis.argeo.org/repos/6/elgis-release-6-6_0.noarch.rpm
> 
> Then enable the elgis-testing repository in
> /etc/yum.repos.d/elgis-testing.repo (since [elgis] is currently
> empty).
> 
> # NOTES
> - We are not using anymore ".elgis" in %{dist} (as in ".el5.elgis").
> The experience has shown that it makes the cooperation with Fedora and
> EPEL much more difficult since this value is often used in %if in the
> spec files in order to have single specs files across the various
> distributions.
> This will also probably soon be the case in ELGIS 5 as well
> 
> - I did not build 'mapserver' and 'mapserver6' because we should
> decide which version we plan to support and how to name it.
> Ideas (especially from the MapServer users / packagers) are welcome.
> 
> # WARNINGS
> - This is a first batch of packages and the process is not completely
> streamlined.
> Even though there is no reason why they should not work well, use with
> caution and please report issues to the list.
> 
> - Packages for i386 will be built later on. Don't hesitate to ask if
> you need them sooner.
> 
> - Documentation, wiki page, etc. have not yet been updated.
> As of today, only http://elgis.argeo.org/ has been updated with
> install instructions.
> 
> # BAD PERFORMANCE ?
> I did a quick test importing the NaturalEarthData countries shapefile
> into PostGIS and visualizing it in QGIS and the performance is very
> bad. I have not investigated yet, but I wonder if it could not be due
> to the upgrade of geos to 3.3.0.
> I would therefore be very interested in your feedback on performance
> with your own environments and data.
> 
> # THANKS
> Many thanks to Micha for documenting over the last few months his own
> builds in his blog (http://www.surfaces.co.il), it definitely saved me
> a lot of time.
> 
> Full credits of course to the Fedora packagers who are doing all the
> hard work, especially to Volker (most packages are simple rebuilds of
> his SRPMs currently under review by Fedora/EPEL).
> 
> # A MILESTONE
> A little more than one year now that the ELGIS repositories are
> providing the latest stable versions of the free GIS software for
> Enterprise Linux.
> I can feel that EL6 will be a great platform for GIS.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mathieu
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