[postgis-users] Are there any Ubuntu PPAs that serve PostGIS 2.0 beta releases?

[Denis Rouzaud]

Good job Charlie!!!


On 03/15/2012 06:40 PM, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:18:35 AM UTC-7, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
>
>     On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:02:24 AM UTC-7, Sandro Santilli
>     wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 07:50:32PM -0700, Charlie Sharpsteen
>         wrote:
>
>         > I was wondering if anyone has a Personal Package Archive for
>         Ubuntu that is
>         > tracking the 2.0 beta releases. I looked at the UbuntuGIS
>         and Postgis
>         > project pages on Launchpad, but the only releases listed
>         there were for
>         > 1.5.x. Even the unstable repostory of UbuntuGIS was still
>         tracking 1.5.x.
>
>         I'm not aware of any. It'd be very welcome if you want to
>         setup one.
>
>         --strk;
>
>
>     Allright, I'll take a shot at it. Looks like there is a Launchpad
>     repository that is synching with PostGIS SVN every 6 hours or
>     so---perhaps I can get a nightly build set up.
>
>     -Charlie
>
>
>
> Ok, I now have a nightly build set up that is tracking the PostGIS 
> trunk. Binaries are being built for Oneric (11.11) and Precise 
> (12.04-dev) and can be installed thusly:
>
>     sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sharpie/postgis-nightly
>     sudo apt-get update
>     sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1-postgis
>
>
> Caveats:
>
>   * No build of `postgis` or `libpostgis-java`, the only package
>     provided is `postgresql-9.1-postgis` which contains the PostGIS
>     plugins, extensions and command line tools.
>   * Builds against GEOS 3.2.2, supplied by the standard Ubuntu
>     repositories, thus the topology extension is unavailable.
>   * Builds against GDAL 1.7.0, supplied by the standard Ubuntu
>     repositories, thus some raster functionalities are unavailable.
>
>
> The raw materials that went into creating this build were the PostGIS 
> repository on Launchpad which synchs with the upstream SVN trunk 
> ~every 6 hours:
>
>   https://code.launchpad.net/~registry/postgis/trunk
>
> This repostory can be cloned using bazaar via `bzr branch lp:postgis`. 
> The other component is the official Ubuntu PostGIS repository that 
> contains the debian packaging materials:
>
>   https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/postgis/precise
>
> This repository can be cloned using `bzr branch lp:ubuntu/postgis`. My 
> strategy was to fork `lp:ubuntu/postgis`, edit the contents of the 
> debian subdirectory to make it compatible with 2.0-dev and then 
> publish the edited fork to Launchpad under my `+junk` section. After 
> this was done, I set up a `bzr-builder` recipe that fuses 
> `lp:postigs`, which tracks the upstream PostGIS repo, with the debian 
> subdirectory contained in `lp:~sharpie/+junk/postgis`, which contains 
> my edited packaging info, to create a nightly build:
>
>     # bzr-builder format 0.3 deb-version 
> {debupstream}~r{revno}~ppa{revno:packaging}
>     lp:postgis
>     nest-part packaging lp:~sharpie/+junk/postgis debian debian
>
> Pretty slick. I will ponder upgrading GEOS and GDAL and setting up a 
> stable build for the most recent beta releases.
>
>
> -Charlie
>
>
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