[Ubuntu] Plan for QGIS and GRASS versions, etc...

[Randal Hale]

I appreciate it.

One question I have - or worry about - so on my main machine I run QGIS 
2.8.x and I also run PostGIS/Postgres from installed from UbuntuGIS. I 
don't have a "server" - so everything runs locally.

I noticed on my laptop that I can get PostGIS/PostGres now from the main 
ubuntu repositories. I worry that at some point QGIS (from QGIS repo) 
and postgis/postgres (from ubuntu) will drift....in other words I can't 
install one because the other has different dependencies. Could that 
happen? I'm not enough of a packaging expert to know (although I want to 
learn).

That's been my big hesitation on switching to the QGIS repositories - 
I'm starting down a road that makes my life harder as opposed to easier 
(and I think my life is easier with ubuntugis).

Thank you for the information.

Randy



On 08/06/2015 03:40 AM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Randal,
>
> On Wed, 05. Aug 2015 at 22:04:11 -0400, Randal Hale wrote:
>> I like the way Ubuntu lines up with Debian - I'm just fighting the
>> urge to switch to the QGIS repos.
> As far as I'm concerned that's what you should do.  We build packages based on
> the plain distributions and ubuntugis unstable.  We even have nightlies of the
> latest release, the long term release and master based on the plain
> distributions and ubuntugis unstable.
>
> All are built automatically and in the same way - ie. without launchpad (which
> only supports ubuntu).
>
> So this is partly to get launchpad out of the equation, but mainly because we
> have more than one (or two) repositories.
>
>
>> I'm on 2.8.1 on my main machine.  I've not been notified that 2.10 is
>> ready...I'm slightly concerned I've missed something where I need to update
>> my repo for 2.10 or to get 2.8.2. I switched my laptop to 2.10 (qgis repos).
>> I'm pretty sure 2.10 isn't ready on unstable and that's fine - I'm just
>> getting worried I've missed something.
> Well, that's also a problem.  I consider 2.10.1 the latest release, while
> others consider 2.8.3 the latest "real" release and 2.10.1 some sort of
> development version.  Currently 2.8.x tells you that 2.10 is out if you check
> the version in the help menu.
>
>
>> I would love to be able to have both 2.10 and 2.8.x installed - I'm pretty
>> sure that would cause someone more headaches than I wish on anyone.
> That could be done.  I do it on OSGeo4W, but I didn't see enough motivation to
> do it for the debs.
>   
>
>> The grass breakages are a pain....but I'm hoping it gets better. I know it's
>> a new release. The OSGEO4W release on windows always makes me a bit envious
>> of that side of life.
> Well, look at the 64bit build in OSGeo4W - it still ships with GRASS 6.4.3.
> The GRASS project only maintains the 32bit builds (of 6 and 7 - also including
> nightlies), but didn't yet get to build a 64bit version (6.4.3 is still my
> initial build from 2013 - I provided my patches and notes back then, but
> apparently they also have too many branches on too many platforms to make it an
> priority too).
>
> So in 32bit you can install GRASS 6 and 7 in parallel and QGIS supports both of
> them (not at the same time, but you get shortcuts to start QGIS with either
> version) and on 64bit you only have one.  But both have the GRASS plugin
> currently available only with GRASS 6.
>
> In debian there currently is no GRASS 7 and hence the packaging was not
> updated.  It will once something breaks...
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
>
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