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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My name is Giuseppe Dia and I'm an Eng student at
Palermo.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did an unofficial Grass 5.0.2 debian package for
Woody. Actually it's based on Federico de Gregorio testing package, as I
basically gave just an uupdate. But there are some other fixes I'd like to
share, like a patch for a compilation error in the PNGdriver part, which now
compiles and runs fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It was compiled and tweaked on a Debian stable, so
I guess it could be useful to someone. At the present moment, as I stated in the
NVIZ mailing list, everything runs fine, except Nviz who's still hangs at
rendering spearfish' aspect (maybe it doesn't hang, it's just me that I
can't stand waiting :) ). Now I've got still to undestand if it's my fault
or a Nviz bug. Otherwise with other maps Nviz runs just fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I actually didn't change nothing in Nviz code,
after some fussing around with tcl.8.2, I just skipped to 8.3 and solved my
problems. (with 8.2 and a small change in source nviz 'd compile just fine, but
gave a "child killed" at run time...) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Postgres support is disabled but it may enabled
easily. The .deb package is without postgres . If postgres support was fixed in
5.0.2 I can easily repackage it with postgres support (just tell me) or someone
else can (there are the deb-sources)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/">http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it's my personal repository. There you can find
binary and source packages. Please note that the source tar.gz is not the same
of the official 5.0.2 as I made some fixes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It may be offline now and then, so I suggest you
should run a local copy if you like it. It also should be
aptgettable:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>deb <A
href="http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/">http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/</A> ./</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>deb-src <A
href="http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/">http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/</A> ./</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here there's the small fix I made to fix PNGdriver
which didn't compile at once:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/patch-Text2.c">http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/patch-Text2.c</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And finally the lintian report for the
.deb</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/grass_5.0.2.lintian">http://ezralabs.esaurito.net/repository/debian/grass/grass_5.0.2.lintian</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If someone with Woody want to try the package, I'd
be very happy. Please report problems and suggestions here, or write me at
giusedia at libero.it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to thank Fog for the marvellous work he
did, without this package could probably not exist.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please also note (the packages) are provided "AS
IS" and I'm not responsible if you use them and burn down your school or
other nasty things.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Contact me at once for any problems.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Have fun
Giuseppe Dia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>*---------------------------------------------------------------*<BR><...Se
Dio esiste, spero abbia una scusa<BR>valida.> (D.Pennac, La fata
carabina)<BR>ICQ 100006302 </FONT></DIV>
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