<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial;}</style></head><body>From the "wet"dise of the community, any chance MB systems and dependencies (x11, gmt)might b inclued in one of the distributions/packages?<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Bruce Bannerman <B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au><br>To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier@argeo.org>, el@lists.osgeo.org, Viji V Nair <viji@fedoraproject.org><br>Sent: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:32:14 -0000 (UTC)<br>Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fedora Geo/GIS Spin [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<br><br><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Do we really need two projects doing this work?<br><br><br>To my perhaps naive thinking, wouldn’t the results of both projects be essentially the same?<br><br><br>Bruce<br><br><br><br>On 18/11/10 6:36 AM, "Cameron Shorter" <<a href="cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hi Viji,<br><br>This sounds very interesting.<br><br><br>I suggest touch base with Mathieu from the Enterprise Linux packaging<br><br>efforts, who are packaging for redhat. I assume that between your two<br><br>projects there will be much that you can share.<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS</a><br><br><br>Also,<br><br>I've involved in the OSGeo-Live packaging effort, which has packaged 42<br><br>of the best geospatial open source applications on top of Ubuntu,<br><br>including all the OSGeo incubated projects.<br><br>Of particular interest would be our shell install scripts which you<br><br>should be able to copy in order to create your rpm installers, and also<br><br>the documentation which projects are creating for us which you will<br><br>likely be interested in copying too.<br><a href="http://live.osgeo.org" target="_blank">http://live.osgeo.org</a> (for docs)<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a> (our main wiki)<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project</a> (provides links to our<br><br>build scripts)<br><br><br>Good luck, I'm interested to hear how things go.<br><br><br>On 17/11/10 21:05, Viji V Nair wrote:<br><br>> Hi,<br><br>><br><br>> I am a Fedora project contributor and have been working on Linux for<br><br>> the last 10+ years, specifically on GIS projects for the last 4+<br><br>> years.<br><br>><br><br>> We are adding more GIS application to fedora. If everything goes fine,<br><br>> there will a GIS/Geo spin for Fedora 15. Please have a look at:<br><br>><br><br>> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Geo_Spin" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Geo_Spin</a><br><br>> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS</a><br><br>><br><br>> The following new packages have been pushed for Fedora 13/14 and<br><br>> rawhide (F15), currently under testing.<br><br>><br><br>> pgRouting (Provides routing functionality to PostGIS/PostgreSQL)<br><br>> tilecache (A web map tile caching system)<br><br>><br><br>> To test:<br><br>> yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install python-tilecache<br><br>> yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install pgRouting<br><br>><br><br>> If you are interested in becoming a contributor, we are very happy.<br><br>> Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries.<br><br>><br><br>> Thanks<br><br>> Viji Nair<br><br>> <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Viji_V_Nair" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Viji_V_Nair</a><br><br>> _______________________________________________<br><br>> Discuss mailing list<br><br>> <a href="Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br><br></span></span></blockquote><br><br></body></html>