[ELGIS] GDAL 1.8.0

[Mathieu Baudier]

> First time posting to group,

Welcome!

> Is there any reason why 1.8.0 is dependent on such old libraries??

For the libraries that we don't maintain (hereafter, third-party
libraries), we depend on base EL 5 (that is: RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 / SL 5)
and EPEL 5.

> 
> yum or rpm cannot get past the dependencies on
> 
> libhdf5.so.0()(64bit) is needed by gdal-1.8.0-4.el5.elgis.x86_64
> libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit) is needed by gdal-1.8.0-4.el5.elgis.x86_64
> libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit) is needed by 
> gdal-1.8.0-4.el5.elgis.x86_64

>From which repos are these librairies coming from?
(MySQL and HDF)

> why would I want to roll back hdf5 to 1.6 from 1.8.7 to get that library
> same for mysql ... 5.5 is installed I would need to roll back to 5.0.77
> to get that library

This is the idea of Enterprise Linux. 

The third-party libraries are stable but old (although bug fixes and
security fixes from newer versions are backported to the provided
versions, but no new features).

To sum up ELGIS maintains recent versions of GIS software buf based on
older libraries

> Suggestions ??

1. Use EL 6 + ELGIS 6, versions should be newer

or

2. Rebuild the ELGIS SRPMs (sources) against your versions of the
third-party libraries

or

3. Use Fedora or Ubuntu which use newer versions of all software and
have good GIS support

or

4. if other are interested, we could try to rebuild and maintain an
updated version of HDF, but I am not too motivated (we rather try new
stuff on ELGIS 6, while targeting to support what already exists in
ELGIS 5)