[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #427: QGIS - GRASS Repository conflict

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#427: QGIS - GRASS Repository conflict
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  Reporter:  wildintellect  |       Owner:  live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  task           |      Status:  closed                   
  Priority:  minor          |   Component:  LiveDVD                  
Resolution:  worksforme     |    Keywords:  qgis grass               
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Comment (by hamish):

 Ok, one thing that would not be good at all is to be installing different
 binary packages which depend on different versions of GDAL. I suspect that
 libgdal-1.5.0 and libgdal-1.6.0 would peacefully coexist (the whole point
 of versioning their package names after all), but it seems a bit wasteful
 and might confuse anything built from source. (?)

 Each binary will be built for one specific version (soname) of libgdal,
 and should have a rule to require exactly that version if it is to
 function. Hopefully they all do.

 We could 'debuild' the latest GRASS 6.4.0 release branch SVN into a
 package as part of the GRASS build script so it would match, but that
 would require a load of -dev scripts to build it. (I'm already doing that
 for gpsdrive). Similarly we could rebuild QGIS+ for the older version.


 Well, fingers crossed for an updated GRASS package.


 What other packages depend on gdal directly and are affected by this? In
 the end we will not be able to rebuild every package in the suite to
 accommodate using the latest-greatest new release of one package.


 :-/ but we will see.

 Hamish

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