[postgis] anyone tried packaging for debian?

[Paul Ramsey]

Mandrake 8.1 binary RPMS are available at
http://postgis.refractions.net/rpms and should probably work for 8.0
also. The SRPM is still there for people w/ other distros. It *should*
compile relatively easily under other distros. If you find dependencies
are getting your goat, go into the spec file and comment out some of the
interface bindings.

As far as putting work into getting Debian packaging goes, if it is not
too much work, they fly at her. We have started to add dependencies into
the CVS version (proj4 is required for transform() support now) and that
means I am going to have to try to update the configuration to be more
automatic (some autoconf may be required). How that will affect optimum
packaging practices I am not sure yet...

Paul

John Reid wrote:
> 
> If you do compile binary RPMs could you please make them available on
> the download page.  Alien (rpm -> deb) is a wonderful thing that keeps
> my package management tools happy :-)
> 
> Paul, as far as producing real Debian packages goes, the best approach
> would be to keep it seperate from the postgresql stuff (no modification
> of upstream files which are essentially a seperate entity), no?   Should
> I go ahead and ask some dumb questions of the Debian packaging folk with
> a  view to producing packages in the medium to long term?
>

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