[ELGIS] Repo Madness

[Bill Thoen]

I should proof read more carefully... arg!Changes are in bold text


On 10/13/2011 2:44 PM, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've been at this all day but I still don't know what I'm doing, and 
> it's not working *for *me yet. I'm trying build a a compatible 
> collection of GIS software using the ELGIS and related repositories. I 
> once had this working, then I somehow got postgres 9.0 on there, which 
> started throwing errors every time I tried to upgrade, so I unloaded 
> everything and tried to build it back up with yum.
>
> First of all, I'd like to make sure I've got the right repos and that 
> they are configured correctly. (I'm running CentOS 5.5 Linux) Are 
> these the right ones?
> # yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.raystedman.net
>  * epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net
>  * extras: mirror.team-cymru.org
>  * updates: centos.mirror.lstn.net
> Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
> Finished
> Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates
> Finished
> repo id   repo name                                         status
> base      CentOS-5 - Base                                   3,538+28
> elgis     EL GIS 5 - x86_64                                      136
> epel      Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64       6,740
> extras    CentOS-5 - Extras                                      235
> pgdg84    PostgreSQL 8.4 5 - x86_64                              150
> updates   CentOS-5 - Updates                                     246
> repolist: 11,045
>
> In the Centos-Base.repo file I'm told by various docs  to add 
> 'exclude=postgresql*' to the Base and Updates sections. Is that right? 
> But I'm having trouble getting  a version of postgresql compatible 
> with Postgis. I think my first problem is that I don't understand  
> repositories nor yum yet so is there a relevant "how to" or wiki entry 
> that explains these things in terms of setting up an 8.4 version of 
> postgresql and getting it to work with postgis, gdal, ogr, and all the 
> rest? The ideal solution for me would be a cookbook recipe that 
> provides All the steps from file preparation to reloading the database 
> plus all the steps in between. But I've scraped this computer down to 
> the bare metal twice but not been able to get a working GIS machine 
> out of it yet.
>
> The repo files are in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (which is consistent with what 
> yum.conf has in it) and it appears that it wants to use the 
> /*var*/lib/pgsql/data for the data.
>
> If I need to supply additional telemetry to diagnose the problem(s) , 
> just ask me. I'm sort of at the end of my rope here, and not too sure 
> what to try next.
>
> TIA ,
>
> Bill Thoen
>
>
>
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