[Ubuntu] GDAL Packaging

[Alan Boudreault]

Jérome,

Could you publish on the wiki the tutorial you wrote for GSoC to setup a 
fresh environment for building packages? Some people on the list might 
be interested.

Thanks,
Alan

On 13-08-16 07:37 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Alan / others,
>
> At my current job we use GDAL on ubuntu for some things.  We have been
> using the standard version of GDAL packaged for Ubuntu (precise) so far,
> but I'd like to start using builds of trunk so I can add capabilities
> and fixes.  I've been encouraged to package trunk for Ubuntu as that
> would fit smoothly into our deployment strategy.
>
> To that end, I'm trying to understand debian/ubuntu packaging better.
>   I've grabbed:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable/+files/gdal_1.10.0.orig.tar.gz
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable/+files/gdal_1.10.0-1~precise1.debian.tar.gz
>
> unpacked them and tried:
>
>    debuild -uc -us
>
> On my first pass I got some problems in the ruby bindings.  When I tried
> to reproduce the problem I got:
>
> dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see
> /tmp/gdal_1.10.0-1~precise1.diff.N1EYWJ
> dpkg-source: info: you can integrate the local changes with dpkg-source
> --commit
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b gdal-1.10.0 gave error exit
> status 2
> debuild: fatal error at line 1357:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
>
>
> I looked at the referenced file, and the most obvious issue was that
> swig 2.0.8 was being used instead of 1.3.40.
>
> I'm seeking suggestions on the steps I should take to get past the above
> errors and reproduce
> the existing package for GDAL 1.10.0  but hopefully then proceeding to
> me packaging trunk
> for our own internal use, possibly with some reduced dependencies.
>
> Best regards,
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