[Live-demo] Re: Please help tweak and test Mapserver on the FOSS4G DVD

[Cameron Shorter]

Steve,
While you are waiting for the Live DVD virtual machine to download, you 
can try out (and improve) the mapserver.sh install script inside a 
standard Xubuntu, or Ubuntu (and probably Debian) based system.

I'm also really keen to get some documentation from you by COB 
Wednesday, as per this email to the LiveDemo email list:

Cameron Shorter wrote:

> > The latest alpha5 LiveDVD is available for download. Please download and
> > check your applications run as you would expect, and adjust any scripts
> > as required.
> > 
> > With this latest build of the Live DVD, I've kept install logs, and also
> > checked disk size after each package install, so you can get an
> > indication about how much space each application uses. (Note that this
> > also includes the tmp/ download directory which is not deleted during
> > the download).
> > The latest image, and logs are available at:
> > http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/
> > <http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ArramagongGISVM2009alpha4.7z.1>
> > 
> > Next:
> > ====
> > By COB this Wednesday 16 Sept:
> > =======================
> > * Test your application, make sure it works. Adjust your scripts if
> > required. Report back to this email list that your application has been
> > tested and works (or doesn't).
> > 
> > * We need a text description of your project to put into the
> > documentation, as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#Writing_docs
> > 
> > * Ensure that test steps for your project are defined at:
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing
> > It should contain enough information for an Ubuntu user who is
> > unfamiliar an application to try it out and confirm that everything has
> > been installed correctly.''
> > 
> > 
> > Thursday 17 Sept:
> > ============
> > * Release 2.0 RC 1 of virtual machine. Ask foss4g delegates to try out
> > the DVD and report any errors they find. (This will be a major FOSS4G
> > press release).
> > 
> > * I hope to also have an ISO of the live DVD created from this image as
> > well.
> > 
> > * Developers, please ensure the metrics like version number and contact
> > person are up to date at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Packages
> > 
> > Final release:
> > =========
> > At the moment, deadline for final build  to meet our printing deadline
> > is Sunday 20 September, in 1 week. I hope to be able to get an extra
> > week for testing. I'm still negotiating on this, so please do get
> > everything working and tested this week.
> > 



Steve Lime wrote:
> A quick look and the script seems reasonable just to get the CGI installed. Can't do much without
> a demo though so that would seem a reasonable addition at a minimum. The debian folks were
> going to package the stock demo but I'm not sure where that stands. Maybe the other devs might
> have an idea.
>
> Now I'll just wait a couple of days to download the VM pieces... ;-)
>
> Steve
>
>   
>>>> Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com> 09/14/09 6:45 PM >>>
>>>>         
> Steve,
> I managed to get one of my developers here at LISAsoft to set it up 
> (along with a few others) while he was between tasks, but he has been 
> reassigned now. Also, we was not an expert in Mapserver, so we won't 
> take any offense if you want to completely rewrite the script.
>
> Steve Lime wrote:
>   
>> Who helped setup what you have so far?
>>
>>   
>>     
>>>>> On 9/12/2009 at 7:53 AM, in message <4AAB99E7.5080305 at gmail.com>, Cameron
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>> Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Daniel, Steve,
>>> We have had great success automating the building of an OSGeo  Live DVD 
>>> / Virtual Machine to be handed out to all delegates at FOSS4G, and we 
>>> had have a tonne of scripts provided by projects to automatically 
>>> install their packages.
>>>
>>> We now have a virtual machine that can be downloaded and tested, 
>>> however, the mapserver install script seems to be very limited compared 
>>> to the others.
>>>
>>> In particular, there are no examples or links on the main page. And I'm 
>>> looking for docs to accompany the project.
>>>
>>> I wonder whether one of you could provide us with some guidance.
>>>
>>> It might be as simple as "Make sure you apt-get install <these extra 
>>> packages>"
>>>
>>> Could you please review the install scripts we have here:
>>> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/ 
>>> In particular, you'd be interested in the install_mapserver.sh script.
>>>
>>> You can download the latest DVD from here:
>>> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ 
>>>
>>> And steps for packaging are here:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#How_to_add_your_project_or_data_to_GI 
>>> SVM_.2F_Arramagong
>>>
>>>
>>> Feel free to forward this email onto others who may be interested, or 
>>> who may want to help.
>>>
>>> I expect to have another release out in a couple of days, and will be 
>>> wanting to get wide user testing of it.
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
>
>
>   


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