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

[Silke Reimer]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:51:39PM -0400, Rick Niles 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.

As I already tried to explain in the thread one year ago this can
only be solved by packaging the grassgdal-plugin in a seperate
package. It happens that I will build a new grass package for FC4
together with this plugin within the next few weeks (hopefully
already this week).

> 
> 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?

Do you the package on [1]? I built this package with the current
Fedora postgresql-devel package. Or did I miss something?

> 
> 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?

Yes, I do :-) Just one week ago I submitted a request for package
review to Fedora Extras. Look at the corresponding bug report [2] to
see its status. There have been made a few comments on my pacakge.
I still have to react to last one. I will hopefully have some time
to do so this week.

In the meantime I am waiting for a reviewer. There a about 60
packages before it's the turn on my package[3]. If you are
interested in the progress of this package you could just add
yourself to the Cc of this bug.

Many greetings,

	Silke


[1] http://ftp.intevation.de/freegis/fedora/4/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168719
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=Package%20Review

> 
> Thanks,
> Rick Niles.
> 
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