[postgis-devel] Raster support in 2.0.0

[Sandro Santilli]

Devrim: raster is critical in that in the postgis "EXTENSION"
(for PostgreSQL 9.1+) there'll be no separation between core
and raster.

--strk;

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:08:35PM +0300, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 20:02 +0100, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> > 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
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> PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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