[GRASSLIST:4144] Re: Install grass57-5.7.0-2mdk.i586.rpm

[Markus Neteler]

Here a FWD of the Mandrake GRASS maintainer.

M.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:19:24AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:

[... reported RPM problems ...]

> The wrong gdal packages (for grass57) are in Mandrake 10.0, since
> grass57 requires gdal-1.2.x. The soname changed between 1.1.9 (from
> libgdal.so.1.1) and 1.2.0 (to libgdal.so.1) - normally library number
> change should not cause these problems, but because the soname was
> incorrect in the beginning (upstream gdal bug) this was not possible, it
> should work in the future though. The right packages are in cooker, is
> also the place you found the grass57 packages ...
> 
> Note that mixing binary packages from different releases is not
> supported ...
> 
> I don't want to upload gdal-1.2.x to community contrib since it will
> require updates to other libraries (libtiff, libgeotiff) and break any
> other software that was using gdal-1.1.9 (or I will have to rebuild all
> packages which depend on gdal-1.1.9 as well) - all of this becomes a
> support nightmare - so it would be better to wait another 2 or 3 weeks
> for Mandrake 10.1 Community
> (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrakelinux101)
> 
> If you want to try this yourself, feel free to rebuild the SRPMs from
> cooker contrib.
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan
> 
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