[postgis-users] Homework for RPM Users

[Paul Ramsey]

Hi RPM'ers.
I have finished compiling a complete set of SRPM packages for postgis, 
mapserver, and all other required open source libraries.  Now, I need 
you, the fine users of postgis, to compile them for me on different 
platforms.
If someone has a default install of Fedora 1, they should compile 
flawlessly (omit the curl package, you already have that).
For Red Hat 9, again, everything should be hunky dory, but you'll have 
to do the curl package, as the RH9 default is not a high enough version 
for mapserver.
For older distros, things will probably get harder, but might still 
work OK.  Red Hat 7.3 is probably the most important, since it was very 
widespread.
For Fedora, RH9, building SRPMS is really easy.

- Make sure you have rpm-devel installed already.
- rpm -Uvh sourcepackage.src.rpm
- cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
- rpmbuild -bb sourcepackage.spec
- find your new RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
- the recommended build order is curl, geos, proj, gdal, postgresql, 
mapserver
- when you have built RPMs and have tested them, drop me a line so I 
can put them online for others to download

For my next trick, I will bundle some demo data and interfaces with the 
mapserver build so that it just "runs" out of the box.

      Paul Ramsey
      Refractions Research
      Email: pramsey at refractions.net
      Phone: (250) 885-0632