[El] Proposed update for MapServer 5.6.6 and EL 5.6

[Volker Fröhlich]

Volker Fröhlich: Went off the list inadvertently!


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Good point! Usually I copy mapserv manually into the cgi-bin directory, but 
this is clearly suboptimal. Anyway, I would say that ELGIS should simply 
follow Fedora.

Peter Hopfgartner
 
R3 GIS Srl - GmbH
http://www.r3-gis.com


--------Volker Fröhlich <volker27 at gmx.at> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] Proposed update for MapServer 5.6.6 and EL 5.6
Date: 01.02.2011 10:53

>I noticed recently, that the mapserver binary should not go to
>%{_sbindir}, 
>but rather to %{_libexecdir}. Putting it to _sbindir is a violation of
>the file 
>hierarchy standard. If somebody is trying to define that directory as his
>cgi 
>directory, he also puts his system to danger.
>
>I'll also tell the Fedora maintainer.
>
>Volker
>
>Am Dienstag 01 Februar 2011, 08:51:03 schrieb Peter Hopfgartner:
>> The following patch to the current mapfile.spec includes an update
>5.6.6,
>> removes a previously included patch, which was applied to upstream and
>> handles the the dependency on php53-devel/php-devel and
>> postgresql84-devel/postgresql-devel depending on whether we are EL5 or
>> not. Packages for php53 are available for testing purposes,
>>
>http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-January/006562.html.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> R3 GIS Srl - GmbH
>> http://www.r3-gis.com
>