[Ubuntu] Postgis Version update to 1.3.6

[Alan Boudreault]

We have a lot a virtual machines using hardy and don't plan to upgrade 
yet because everything is also running
smoothly. Here's the list of the supported distributions and their 
planned end of support date.

http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/SupportedDistributions

Alan

Frank Broniewski wrote:
>> Frank wrote:
>>> Or is Hardy Heron already outdated?
>>
>> fwiw Hardy Heron was 5 Ubuntu releases ago. so yes, it's outdated :) 
>> but on the positive side the newer releases automatically include a 
>> newer version of PostGIS. (ie Karmic Koala or the brand new Lucid Lynx)
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=postgis
>>
>>
>> You might consider to compile from source if you need/want to stick 
>> with Hardy, but perhaps just go to 1.3.6 as PostGIS 1.4+ may want to 
>> have Postgre 8.4 (?) which is probably not available for Hardy either.
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Hamish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> maybe outdated was a unlucky choice of words, since Hardy is a LTS
> release and supported until 2013 by Ubuntu. I meant the support by the
> Ubuntu-GIS people. While I do have plans to update my servers to 10.04
> this year I want to wait at least until 10.04.1 before doing this. And
> updating an online (web) server is always a bit risky, so I am not doing
> this in a hurry.
>
> But I understand of course that support for a probable minority of users
> is often too much work for a volunteers like the ubuntu-gis repository.
> Therefore my question, otherwise I would have searched for an
> alternative solution :-)
>
> Unfortunately (in terms of reasons for upgrading) everything is running
> smoothly here, and if I would'nt have the need to convert pg-geometries
> to geojson format, I would'nt have asked for an upgrade to 1.3.6.
>
>
> Anyway, thanks for the hints
>
> Frank
>
>
>


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