[postgis-devel] trunk == 2.0.1

Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 17:30:22 PDT 2012 

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Actually I did something different here:
The published name of the package is the same, so there is a 
postgis-1.5.3.rpm and a postgis-2.0.0.rpm at the same time.
The name postgis1 is just internal to OBS. Using 'postgis2' would have 
the same result...

Angelos

On 04/06/2012 03:12 AM, Chris Hodgson wrote:
> I think that releasing the postgis 2.0.0 package as "postgis2" is a 
> better approach, as you really don't want people to be able to 
> automatically replace their postgis 1.5 with postgis 2.0.0.
>
> Creating postgis1 packages will just force everyone to go through this 
> nasty process... that said, for anyone who has already "upgraded" to 
> 2.0.0 using your packages, they will need the postgis1 package to go 
> back and fix things.
>
> What a mess!
>
> Chris
>
> On 12-04-05 04:49 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> I have now created 'postgis1' as a branch of 1.x
>> Hope to get this working in a while.
>>
>> On 04/06/2012 02:38 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>> Yeah, maybe it needs to be packaged as 'postgis2' so that people can
>>> install both versions simultaneously to make upgrading simpler...?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Angelos 
>>> Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the heads up.
>>>> A possible work around would be to host some 1.5.x binaries on another
>>>> repository, since OpenBuildService does not archive old versions of 
>>>> the
>>>> rpms.
>>>> Since OBS uses version control, I can get the latest 1.5.x postgis 
>>>> version
>>>> up and running elsewhere. Perhaps we could advertise this solution in
>>>> postgis documentation somewhere, so that people can see it?
>>>> I will see if there can be any name convention (like postgis1) for 
>>>> the old
>>>> version, but this could lead to some other troubles...
>>>>
>>>> I will get back with a plan for this.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Angelos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 04/05/2012 11:55 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>> Angelos, see this
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22945/postgis-2-0-upgrade-problem-with-postgres-data 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way to warn people as they upgrade, because 2.0 is not
>>>>> backwards compatible with 1.5. They need to dump their database 
>>>>> before
>>>>> they upgrade and run it through postgis_restore.pl while loading it
>>>>> back into 2.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Angelos 
>>>>> Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>> OK, no one can hear us :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 11:15 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes. Sssssh :)
>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>> P
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Angelos 
>>>>>>> Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I assumed this is the final:
>>>>>>>> http://postgis.org/download/postgis-2.0.0.tar.gz
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 11:11 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Are all the versions numbers correct? What did you package off 
>>>>>>>>> of? I
>>>>>>>>> haven't released the tarball yet...
>>>>>>>>> P.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Angelos 
>>>>>>>>> Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Devs,
>>>>>>>>>>> I have tagged 2.0.0. I have not branched a 2.0 yet. I would 
>>>>>>>>>>> like to
>>>>>>>>>>> hold 2.0 development on trunk until we do a 2.0.1 release. 
>>>>>>>>>>> At that
>>>>>>>>>>> point we can create a 2.0 branch and bring new features 
>>>>>>>>>>> online in
>>>>>>>>>>> trunk.
>>>>>>>>>>> Uploading and preparing text now for release announcement.
>>>>>>>>>>> P.
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>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have completed packaging of v2.0 for openSUSE.
>>>>>>>>>> Waiting the announcement to release the rpms :)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>> Angelos Tzotsos
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