[postgis-devel] Packaging 2.1

[Markus Wanner]

On 08/27/2013 12:58 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Second, on Linux question: what should we do? We almost need to start fully numbering our postgis packages to make it clear you can have multiple minor versions installed simultaneously: postgis2.0, postgis2.1, etc.

Just FYI: on Debian and Ubuntu, I created multiple packages out of the
postgis sources. A 'postgis' one is just the binaries (shp2psql et al,
which I hope to be somewhat backwards-compatible). The real extension is
named "postgresql-9.1-postgis-2.0" for example. This allows the
installation of different postgis extension versions with multiple
postgres versions.

> This will make our package names even more awesomely awful, but I don't see a way around it.

Working properly across OS and/or Postgres migrations is much more
valuable than beauty of names, IMO.

Regards

Markus Wanner