[postgis-devel] trunk == 2.0.1

Thu Apr 5 19:04:55 PDT 2012

Hi,

The repository is now as suggested:
postgis links to 1.5.3 and postgis2 links to 2.0.0.

This will stay like that until our next official release 12.2 (July) so 
that users will have time to upgrade.

Is this ok?

Angelos

On 04/06/2012 03:31 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> The key here is that folks can just go "upgrade postgis" (whatever the
> command it) and end up w/ a non-working system. We want them to go
> "get postgis2" and then go through the migration steps. Is that
> doable?
> P
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Angelos Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> Actually I did something different here:
>> The published name of the package is the same, so there is a
>> postgis-1.5.3.rpm and a postgis-2.0.0.rpm at the same time.
>> The name postgis1 is just internal to OBS. Using 'postgis2' would have the
>> same result...
>>
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>> On 04/06/2012 03:12 AM, Chris Hodgson wrote:
>>> I think that releasing the postgis 2.0.0 package as "postgis2" is a better
>>> approach, as you really don't want people to be able to automatically
>>> replace their postgis 1.5 with postgis 2.0.0.
>>>
>>> Creating postgis1 packages will just force everyone to go through this
>>> nasty process... that said, for anyone who has already "upgraded" to 2.0.0
>>> using your packages, they will need the postgis1 package to go back and fix
>>> things.
>>>
>>> What a mess!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On 12-04-05 04:49 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>>> I have now created 'postgis1' as a branch of 1.x
>>>> Hope to get this working in a while.
>>>>
>>>> On 04/06/2012 02:38 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>> Yeah, maybe it needs to be packaged as 'postgis2' so that people can
>>>>> install both versions simultaneously to make upgrading simpler...?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Angelos Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the heads up.
>>>>>> A possible work around would be to host some 1.5.x binaries on another
>>>>>> repository, since OpenBuildService does not archive old versions of the
>>>>>> rpms.
>>>>>> Since OBS uses version control, I can get the latest 1.5.x postgis
>>>>>> version
>>>>>> up and running elsewhere. Perhaps we could advertise this solution in
>>>>>> postgis documentation somewhere, so that people can see it?
>>>>>> I will see if there can be any name convention (like postgis1) for the
>>>>>> old
>>>>>> version, but this could lead to some other troubles...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will get back with a plan for this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/05/2012 11:55 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>> Angelos, see this
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22945/postgis-2-0-upgrade-problem-with-postgres-data
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any way to warn people as they upgrade, because 2.0 is not
>>>>>>> backwards compatible with 1.5. They need to dump their database before
>>>>>>> they upgrade and run it through postgis_restore.pl while loading it
>>>>>>> back into 2.0.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Angelos Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>> OK, no one can hear us :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 11:15 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Yes. Sssssh :)
>>>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>>>> P
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Angelos
>>>>>>>>> Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I assumed this is the final:
>>>>>>>>>> http://postgis.org/download/postgis-2.0.0.tar.gz
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 11:11 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Are all the versions numbers correct? What did you package off of?
>>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>>> haven't released the tarball yet...
>>>>>>>>>>> P.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Angelos
>>>>>>>>>>> Tzotsos<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 04/03/2012 10:39 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Devs,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have tagged 2.0.0. I have not branched a 2.0 yet. I would like
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hold 2.0 development on trunk until we do a 2.0.1 release. At
>>>>>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>>>>> point we can create a 2.0 branch and bring new features online
>>>>>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> trunk.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Uploading and preparing text now for release announcement.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> P.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I have completed packaging of v2.0 for openSUSE.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Waiting the announcement to release the rpms :)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>> National Technical University of Athens
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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>>>>>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>>>>>> National Technical University of Athens
>>>>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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Angelos Tzotsos
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National Technical University of Athens
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