[Qgis-user] install qgis server on RHEL?

[Volker Fröhlich]

Dear Richard,

yes, my approach is more difficult -- especially if you are new to RPM. So let's 
explain it for reference! I don't expect that to be complete anyhow:

Ad sources: Yes, you can just do a pull and then export a tarball like this:

git archive --format=tar --prefix=qgis-1.8.0/ HEAD | bzip2 >qgis-1.8.0.tar.bz2

If you modify the specfiles version, it will point to that tarball and use it. 
You might also have to alter build options and the file lists.

Having a proper directory tree, you need to do the something like this:

$ rpmbuild -bs qgis.spec
$ mock --rebuild -r epel-6-x86_64 qgis-1.8.0-1.el6.src.rpm

And that will give you RPM packages.

You might want to change the release or version number somehow, so you can 
always simply update and not uninstall and install the packages.

Ad writing instructions: We can throw something together, if you want. I think 
we could use the wiki.

Volker

Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011, 14:36:53 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> Volker,
> 
> just for the record: I'm not so much a RedHat guy. So not so familiar
> with the apparently niceties of RPM's
> 
> I learned myself yum and was able to use that for compiling on the
> machine, but your plan sounds more healty. But a little more complicated
> for a RMP-newbie:
> - what to do exactly with the spec file
> - you mean tarring the sources after a git pull? Or sources from a rpms?
> 
> What about a blog/article somewhere to do this? Don't know if there is
> some easy accessible blog thingie on qgis.org, otherwise I would say:
> just let's write two small article with code snippets on how to do both
> ways....
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> On 07/20/2011 02:12 PM, Volker Fröhlich wrote:
> > You can also compile the current source code by creating a tarball and
> > using that with the spec file of the RPM.
> > 
> > This gives you the advantages of:
> > 
> > - Package management
> > - Distributions specific adaptions made for the package
> > - No need to think a lot
> > 
> > Volker
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011, 13:45:28 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
> >>  Hi,
> >>  
> >>  Personally I would invest the time and compile from Source. It is
> >>  probably worth, because there may/will often be fixes during releases
> >>  that are worth a recompile and otherwise you would have to wait.
> >>  
> >>  Once setup you can just git pull and recompile. Very fast and easy.
> >>  
> >>  Andreas
> >>  
> >>  On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:24 +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> >>> Hi List,
> >>> 
> >>> I have a RHEL6 demo machine running.
> >>> 
> >>> I want to install/demo qgis-server on it.
> >>> 
> >>> What is the easiest way to install that?
> >>> 
> >>> Normal compile of qgis? (gdal/proj is already done there for
> >>> mapserver...), or are there easier packages available (like for
> >>> ubuntu).
> >>> 
> >>> Grtz
> >>> 
> >>> Richard
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