[postgis-users] ubuntu: package conflict

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

I did the same test to backport gdal to current version in precise and 
had the same results: dh-python missing.
So we stay with 1.10 for OSGeoLive.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 01/27/2014 09:30 AM, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks Brian for your reply.
>
> I asked Christoph Berg (maintainer for Postgres) and you have his 
> reply hereunder.
>
> Following his advise, I found a ppa for precise which hs gdal 1.10, 
> postgis 2.1 and postgres 9.3!
> https://launchpad.net/~lwarx/+archive/postgis-pg93-bp 
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Elwarx/+archive/postgis-pg93-bp>
>
> Seems to solve the problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Denis
>
>
> From Christop:
>
> Hi Denis,
>
> the osgeo people have asked the same question last week.
>
> The story is as follows:
>
> In wheezy, sid, and trusty (Ubuntu 14.04), we are using the gdal that
> comes with that distribution, while in precise (Ubuntu 12.04) we are
> using a backport of the wheezy version (which was also the sid version
> at the time we built that package).
>
> I've tried to push a newer gdal package into precise, but that fails
> horribly because precise doesn't have dh-python, and if you try to
> produce a backport of that as well, the python3 version there is too
> old.
>
> An alternative would be to rip out the python3 parts of gdal to make
> it build in precise, but that would be a regression compared to what
> we have there now. I have pretty much no clue about gdal, so it won't
> be me to dig into this.
>
> One way that could work was to look into what the osgeo people have
> done to get postgis working. I was under the impression that the PPA
> for this washttps://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+archive/osgeolive  , but
> that doesn't seem to contain gdal, so they seem to have taken some
> other route (probably just recompiling postgis against whatever gdal
> they ship).
>
> If you have a suggestion for how to resolve this, please let us know.
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
>
> On 22. 01. 14 21:55, maplabs at light42.com wrote:
>> Hi All --
>>
>>    the UbuntuGIS, UbuntuGIS-untable, and pgdg apt packagers are 
>> actively working on harmonizing the repositories in time for Ubuntu 
>> "Trusty" 14.04.
>>
>>    Meanwhile, the short story is, PGDG apt repository for 
>> Debian/Ubuntu PostGIS 2.1 is based on GDAL 1.9,
>> while UbuntuGIS-unstable and related repos are based on GDAL 1.10 
>> with updated drivers.
>>
>>    Thanks for your patience while this gets updated..
>>    You can express you interest in GDAL 1.10 to the Postgres project, 
>> too!  The communities are different so it takes some time for the 
>> prioritization to come through..
>>
>>    best regards from Berkeley
>>
>> -- 
>> Brian M Hamlin
>> OSGeo California Chapter
>> blog.light42.com
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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