[mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)

Fri Jun 10 03:06:07 PDT 2011

For Fedora, I think you want the EPEL and ELGIS repos.

See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

Mike

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Michael Smith
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers

On 6/10/11 3:34 AM, "Chris Green" <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Brent
>  
> Thank you for your very helpful comments, much appreciated. It is pretty clear
> to me that I have to start by changing my elderly Fedora to something better
> suited to supporting GIS applications including Mapserver 6.0. It is strange 
> I¹m not at all afraid of PHP/Mapscript (although the documentation is not
> great) or of Javascript, but the whole Linux world is just so confusing that I
> get a form of paralysis by analysis soon after I start trying to compare the
> different options.
>  
> Anyway I will certainly take a look at Ubuntu / OpenSuse.
>  
>  
> Chris
>  
> 
> From: pcreso at pcreso.com [mailto:pcreso at pcreso.com]
> Sent: 10 June 2011 07:21
> To: chris.green at ibstv.co.uk
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)
>  
> Hi Chris, 
> 
> I'm a Suse/Ubuntu user, in both cases totally because of the well supported
> GIS related packages for these distros. So I have completely avoided the
> issues are facing right now :-) Though I'd imagine it will not be long before
> 6.0 is available natively for Fedora, given 5.6 is supported.
> 
> I'm not too familiar with the RH Linux family, but the OpenSuse Geo repository
> partially supports Centos & RH4/5, and I have found the maintainers there to
> be very helpful. If a RH or Centos build will be compatible with Fedora, it
> would be worth asking around there. Mapserver is not currently built for these
> distros, but someone may be prepared to do this for you.
> 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/
> 
> Personally, I'd suggest you switch to a distro that does what you want, & if
> that includes well maintained & supported, pre-built mapserver (& related)
> packages, Ubuntu & OpenSuse are well worth considering.
> 
> HTH,
> 
>   Brent Wood
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 6/10/11, Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH
> <michael.smith at usace.army.mil> wrote:
> From: Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH <michael.smith at usace.army.mil>
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)
> To: "Chris Green" <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk>, "'Stephen Woodbridge'"
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>, mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 3:31 AMChris,
> 
> What Linux OS are you on? There are packages for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc.
> 
> See http://mapserver.org/download.html#linux
> 
> 
> On 6/9/11  11:04 AM, "Chris Green" <chris.green at ibstv.co.uk
> </mc/compose?to=chris.green at ibstv.co.uk> > wrote:
> 
>> > Hi Steve
>> > 
>> > Thanks for your comments. I have read the documentation and realise that
>> > there will be quite a few changes to my mapfile(s). I'm not at all worried
>> > about that, it's just a question of patiently working through the changes.
>> > However I am very apprehensive of the upgrade itself. Before I installed >>
the
>> > FGS package I spent many, many hours trying to compile and install
>> Mapserver
>> > myself but eventually had to admit defeat and resort to FGS.
>> > 
>> > Now there is no FGS to fall back on, I'm hoping for some guidance (or maybe
>> > just some encouragement!)
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Chris
>> > 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> </mc/compose?to=mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>> > [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> </mc/compose?to=mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> ] On Behalf Of
>> Stephen
>> > Woodbridge
>> > Sent: 09 June 2011 15:42
>> > To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> </mc/compose?to=mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] upgrade Mapserver 5.4 to 6.0 (gulp!)
>> > 
>> > On 6/9/2011 8:58 AM, Chris Green wrote:
>>> >> Hi All
>>> >> 
>>> >> I have been running Mapserver 5.4 for about 18 months on a Fedora core 7
>>> >> Unix platform. I installed it via the FGS installer package which made
>>> >> the installation process relatively straightforward.
>>> >> 
>>> >> Now I see that Mapserver 6.0 has been released and it includes some
>>> >> features that I really want to take advantage of, particularly the
>>> >> ability to cluster dense features. My problem is that apparently the FGS
>>> >> package has not been updated, so from the Mapserver website it looks
>>> >> like I have start from scratch with a scarily long list of libraries and
>>> >> compilations required to install Mapserver 6.0 from scratch. As
>>> >> something of a Unix novice I don't fancy this very much!
>>> >> 
>>> >> I am wondering if there is a simple way to in effect replace my existing
>>> >> Mapserver 5.4 executable with Mapserver 6.0 - could I assume that
>>> >> Mapserver 6.0 only requires the same libraries as 5.4 and just compile
>>> >> the 6.0 executable? Any guidance on the direction to take here would be
>>> >> gratefully received.
>> > 
>> > Hi Chris,
>> > 
>> > Be aware that 5.4 to 6.0 is probably NOT a transparent upgrade from a
>> > mapfile point of view. Make sure you read the mapserver migration guide.
>> > One of the big changes that we made in 6.0 was to clean up some of the
>> > mapfile syntax and remove some deprecated tags. These should not be
>> > major changes but it is likely that some (all?) of your mapfiles will
>> > need to be tweaked to get them to work.
>> > 
>> > So please plan accordingly.
>> > 
>> > -Steve W
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