GDAL 1.7.3 / Java software and repos (was Re: [El] imageio-ext)

[Viji V Nair]

Hi

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
>> We also, but, hope you have read the PROVENANCE.TXT-fedora file to
>> understand why there is a "fedora" extension.
>
> Yes I replaced it with upstream at the time because I thought that if
> these files were distributed by the GDAL project at all, it was
> probably no big deal.
>
> But of course it will be much easier to merge regularly the spec file
> from Fedora if we keep this, so I have built the latest package using
> the Fedora sources.
>
>> Also, how many packages in the repo in which you have seen a "fedora"
>> tag added to it?
>
> Sorry, I was not clear: I meant within this particular spec file.
> In general Fedora package are very simple and easy to rebuild with
> upgrades from upstream (most of the ELGIS packages derive from Fedora
> packages in the first place!)
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We always try to keep the upstream tarball as it, but gdal contains
propitiatory files in it which may end up in legal issues...so we had
to do some repackaging...

Thanks
Viji