[El] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G rpm packaging

[Viji V Nair]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I could see that there some packages exists on both EPEL and ELGIS
>> repo, we should avoid this duplication (if there is no specific
>> reasons).
>
> Our main goal is not to maintain a repo but to have recent stable
> versions of the FLOSS GIS software running on EL.
> The more we can get into EPEL, the better!
> This is definitely a focus for EL 6, since I suspect that there won't
> be much motivation to upgrade GIS software in EPEL 5.
>
> At some point, I tried to contact some maintainers of EPEL/Fedora GIS
> packages but it did not go very far.
> Now may be a good time now to work on this again.

We should :)

>
> Also note that we have a repo (elgis-plus) of RPMs which require to
> update based EL, which is (understandably) against EPEL guidelines

Yes, for example boost, these exceptions we can keep it in elgis-plus

>
>> I have recently ported the the boost (1.39.0-12) from fedora 13 to
>> EL5. This is tested with mapnik and works well, if you are interested,
>> let know. I can upload the same to some servers.
>
> I'm definitely interested in that. I just rebuilt quickly a boost
> version in order to get mapnik working.
> I would be very interested in a better tested version.
>
> Just send the spec file and other files and I will build/deploy them!
> Thanks in advance for that.

You can download the source rpm from the following link

http://210.210.17.38/oss/boost/boost-1.39.0-12.el5.src.rpm

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mathieu
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Thanks
Viji