[Gdal-dev] Status of GDAL in Fedora Extras?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/26/05, Rick Niles <fniles at mitre.org> wrote:
> Now that Red Hat has really pushed a lot of stuff in to Extras (e.g.
> octave) and people have gotten serious about doing Extras packages. I
> really think GDAL should be in there.  All the traffic on the mailing
> lists says there's some dependency conflict between GRASS and GDAL and
> then they just gave up.
>
> Can I motivate anyone with the ability and the authority to actually do
> something about this to spend a little time solving this silly issue?  I
> really think GDAL would benefit from having an easy install for Fedora
> users.
>
> Also, I see that the current Fedora Core 4 RPMs depend on installing an
> old version of Postgres.  What's the deal there?  Can that be fixed?
>
> Of course, maybe I'm way off and a solution is gonna happen "Real Soon
> Now".  Or perhaps, this is a sensitive subject and I've just opened up a
> can o' worms.
>
> Anyone here know the status of such things?

Rick,

I'm not aware of any comprehensive effort to maintain
proper Fedora compatible RPMs for GDAL though Silke
did just release some, and there are older ones at
mappinghacks.org (com?).

The problem with GRASS and GDAL was solved as part of the
Debian GIS effort and revolves around building the GDAL
GRASS driver as a separate package using the plugin API.
Presumably a similar approach would be advisable for Fedora.

>From my point of view, I am confused by the sheer variety of
RPM based systems which all have varying inconsistencies
with each other.

Best regards,
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