[Live-demo] PostGIS issues on thel Live DVD 3.0

[Alex Mandel]

Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
> 
> Il giorno 14/gen/2010, alle ore 21.26, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:
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>> Paul, Mark,
>>
>> In building the 3.0-alpha3 version of the liveDVD, I'm getting the following query come up (which requires acknowledgement). It comes up in the install_postgres.sh script.
>>
>> How do you suggest this should be handled? Should we be updating the LiveDVD install script for Postgres to a later version?
>> Could I tempt you to update the LiveDVD install script?
>> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_postgres.sh
>> (current version is r2716)
>>
>> Issue 1: Should we upgrade to a later version of posgres?
> 
> 
> I think postgresql 8.4+ and postgis 1.4+ are mature sw
>  and we need to rewrite the script to upgrade both postgresql and postgis.
> 
> note : the last time i tried the scripts on ubuntu 9.10
> i found  different packages that needs to be update.
> i think that we need just "one time" to run each scripts manually "only the apt-get lines"
> to see which packages are obsolete so we can update the right version number inside the install_scripts.
> 
> 
> Alex asked for a different dvd build procedure, i think remastersys is good but maybe non optimal ... googling
> i find a "really nice" tool  "pyfll"
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> http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-9877-highlight-pyfll.html
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> unluky the only docs i find on pyfll usage is in german :
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> http://sidux.com/index.php?module=Wikula&tag=ISOBuilding
> 

Well particularly I want to get back the language menu at boot, that to
me is a key feature this version.

As for the packages, yes we have to go through and update which ones we
pull, as I suggested in another thread if Debian packages for postgis
work we can pull them into UbuntuGIS repos to make life easier.

Alex