[postgis-devel] debian packaging

[strk at refractions.net]

Alex, I make postgis-devel part of the discussion, as it might
interest other people. Please include the list in your eventual
replies.

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:08:10PM +0200, alexbodn at 012.net.il wrote:
> 
> hi strk,
> 
> > 
> > I've no /etc/xml directory.
> i will further inquire this issue, but please inform me how to begin: how did you make the initial xml document?

I didn't ;)
Paul did.

> > Anyway, I've made the XSLBASE directory a parameter, so you can
> > specify it in the environment.
> >
> it is possible to use it like this, but the default should be more reliable: if the files do not exist there, i would still take the find option.

Someone has it, and releases include already built documentation.
A find seems too expensive to me. When postgis will get autoconf scripts
the find shall be there, if needed.

> > > as for the sql scripts: could you be more explicit as of the way 
> > to install and use them? the debian package has an installation 
> > 
> > I think you should source lwpostgis.sql and spatial_ref_sys.sql.
> if those would be so important, why are they not been both installed? see the patch i did propose, which installs and uninstalls those scripts as part of the make process.

I'm adding those now. Would $(datadir)/contrib be more appropriate for 
the sql files ? Or $(datadir)/contrib/postgis and $(docdir)/contrib/postgis
direcly ? What people think about this ?

--strk;