[postgis] anyone tried packaging for debian?

[Cameron Shorter]

Sounds like I am in luck.  I'm running Mandrake 8.1.  :)
So yes, I'd love a Mandrake binary.

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> Binary RPMs can be a bit of a distribution nightmare with the different
> flavours of Linux around. libc compatibilities are the most noticable
> problem for me, since I have a recent version of Mandrake to compile on.
> That means I always tend to be compiling against the latest/greatest
> libc, which is fine for me and my mandrake brethren but not so good for
> people running earlier Red Hats (or even Mandrake 7). If you would like
> binary mandrake 8 RPMS I can build them for you though.
> Paul
> 
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >
> > A binary rpm would be good too.
> > I tried to get the source rpm installed, but ran into a few dependancy
> > problems (with postgres) before putting it off until later.
> >
> > Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > >
> > > Nope. Having done the packaging for RPM once, the best bet is to take
> > > the sources and configs used for the generic postgresql DEBs, add in the
> > > postgis stuff, and build the whole mess from there.
> >
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