[postgis-devel] Raster support in 2.0.0

[Devrim GÜNDÜZ]

Hi,

I began testing packaging PostGIS for Fedora/RHEL/Scientific
Linux/CentOS and others. So far it seems pretty fine, but I'm having
some issues with raster support.

To add raster support to PostGIS, I need to install gdal-devel package,
and the current gdal package in Fedora/EPEL repositories are not aware
of the new PostgreSQL RPM layout. I can make it aware, but then:

	armadillo-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	cfitsio-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	CharLS-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	chrpath is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	freexl-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	hdf-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	hdf-static is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	hdf5-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	jasper-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	libgta-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	libspatialite-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	netcdf-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	libdap-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	librx-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	mysql-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	numpy is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	ogdi-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	poppler-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	xerces-c-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64
	xz-devel is needed by gdal-1.9.0-1.f16.x86_64


and it means more build dependency to RPM buildfarm.

So, the question from the "non-GIS and just a packager guy" is: How
critical is raster support? Is it ok if I just ditch it out from the
spec file?

Regards,

-- 
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
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