[postgis-users] Ubuntu 8.04 and PostGIS / GEOS versions again

[Chris Hermansen]

Further to this slightly bizarre discussion, it turns out that Colin was 
half-right; PostGIS in 8.04 is up to date, but GEOS isn't.

There is a kind maintainer who is as of today working on a port from 
Sid.  See the story live on Launchpad

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139689

Anyway, this did kind of solve my problem in a weird roundabout way 
because now I have some idea who is interested in doing the port.

Colin Wetherbee wrote:
> Chris Hermansen wrote:
>> Colin Weatherbee has kindly corrected my total lack of e-mail polish
>> and further advised that Ubuntu 8.04 PostGIS and GEOS offerings are
>> right up to date.
>
> I hope that works out. :)
>
>> That being the case, I will postpone asking the list about
>> alternatives to building new PostGIS related components from source
>> when one's server distros are getting a bit long in tooth until I
>> really need to know.
>
> Your previous email, I believe, suggested you were more interested in 
> using packages than building from source.
>
> In case you're interested in something slightly different...
>
> Ubuntu provides package-creation tools, if you need to bundle your own 
> packages from a source build.
>
> I use Debian, on which Ubuntu is based, and if I were going to build 
> my own packages, I'd start by reading up on the dpkg-dev package.  It 
> might be called something slightly different in Ubuntu.
>
> `apt-cache show dpkg-dev` says:
>
> Recommends: build-essential, gcc | c-compiler
> [...]
> Description: package building tools for Debian
>  This package contains the tools (including dpkg-source) required to
>  unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.
>  .
>  Most Debian source packages will require additional tools to build -
>  for example, most packages need the `make' and the C compiler `gcc'.
> [...]
> Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
>
> Colin
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