[Live-demo] 5.5 Beta 2 Status

[Hamish]

Angelos wrote:
> Just completed the 5.5 beta2 build.
> Logs are here:
> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/5.5/


Hi,

some notes after a quick look at the log:


R:
http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu seemed to be having a bad hair day.
this error took out rasdaman as collateral damage.


QGIS:
tutorial doc build failed (hopefully now fixed in svn.)
jef provided a new 1.7.3-2 with the qgis_mapserver patch applied, which is hopefully now functional
again.


MapGuide:
experimental install failed; script needs to be updated for natty.
I've disabled it completely until that happens.

(fdo-core : Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (>= 2.2.11-3) but it is not installable. 
the package is now called odbcinst1debian2.)

this left dpkg in a broken state, run 'apt-get -f install' to fix it.

tip: try 'gdebi' instead of 'dpkg -i'

mb-system and the language packs were taken out as collateral damage by this.


deegree:
I've forcibly set its tomcat to use alternate ports
as it was conflicting with the system's on port 8080.


52n:
your tomcat appears ok with ports.


deegree & 52n:
if there's a way to start tomcat with an alternate
conf/server.xml file, we could reuse the system's
install, saving 200-300 megabytes of disc space
lost to file redundancy.

is it possible to launch 2-3 tomcats with diff't
configs from the same core installation?
i.e., similar to running: apache2 -f config.file

(AFAIU if all web apps use the same tomcat instance
they all are kept running blowing our RAM budget,
so the bigger ones need their own which can be
started and stopped on demand.)


Natural Earth data:
 Starting AtlasStyler...
 log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (ResourceProvider).
 log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
(repeated many many times)
?


setup:
modern kernel headers package removal version was
out of date (fixed in svn; 82mb freed)


openjdk7:
don't use verbose unpacking, it swamps the build log with noise (fixed in svn)


GeoMajas:
Do not use mode 777 if at all possible.

kosmo:
Do not use mode 777 if at all possible.


maptiler:
don't use wget for local files, just copy from local svn checkout.


liblas:
verify that 'apt-get --yes autoremove' doesn't take
out any innocent libraries needed by other projects.


mapfish:
(non-fatal?) problem installing Shapely


desktop:
passwords.txt and welcome message failed, I suspect
because /usr/local/share/gisvm/bin was a symlink
for this build? (??)


that's all for now,
Hamish