[SAC] [OSGeo] #296: create OSGeo repository for .deb's for LiveDVD & documentation

[Ari Jolma]

OSGeo wrote:
> #296: create OSGeo repository for .deb's for LiveDVD & documentation
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> Reporter:  tbowden  |       Owner:  sac at lists.osgeo.org
>     Type:  task     |      Status:  new                
> Priority:  normal   |   Component:  SAC                
> Keywords:  repo     |  
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>  We need to create a repo for storing OSGeo created .deb's of apps &
>  educational material as packaged.  Target platform will (for now at least)
>  be Ubuntu 8.10 (due in a few weeks).
>
>   

I believe we need also a new discussion list for the LiveDVD project.

My first attempt to create an instance to create packages just failed 
miserably. I started from the LiveDVD, installed from it, then added 
some packages (debian sid gdal etc.) to be able to compile some of my 
own packages (Perl modules mainly), ended up with Perl reporting double 
free errors. The probable reason for those is a mixture of older libs 
(perl 5.8) with newer ones (perl 5.10). A total catastrophe was then 
created by trying to update the older ones also. Well, I'll look into 
the ubuntu 8.10.

Tim, Charlie must have mentioned these: 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/education/Releases/UMass/IntroductionToGisUsingQgisV0.8 


To me they look prime candidates to be put into packages for the LiveDVD.

I also added a link to the root: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser to 
the main page of our wiki (panel General OSGeo) since I didn't know 
about that repo and don't see links to it anywhere.

Regards,

Ari