Re: [Pkg-grass-general] GIS packages for Ubuntu
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:39:56AM -0700, Jon Saints wrote:
> I have been trying recently to leverage the work of
> our debian GIS project to run GIS software (grass,
> mapserver, postgis, etc) on Ubuntu. I know that we
> build our packages to run on Debian SID. I have foudn
> that the majority of our packages will
> not run on Ubuntu due to failed dependencies.
>
> I have noticed that sid has some
> newer and some older packages than ubuntu universe.
> it seems that Ubuntu universe is some sort of snap
> shot of DEbian sid.
>
> If this is the case, collaboration
> between debianGIS and Ubuntu will be more difficult
> that i had originally thought. I know there was a
> recent suggestion to house unbuntuGIS work on this
> list. But, I wonder, given the differences in
> dependencies, Will it be necessary to create a new
> UbuntuGIS project? or is there some better way for
> UbuntuGIS to coexist with the already thriving
> DebianGIS project?
>
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks
> Jon
>
Source level compatibility is possible (roughly speaking).
Of course, ubuntu is essentially a fork of debian and has major differences
for library levels and binary compatibility. It's simply non-debian and
you need to build within a suitable chroot to retain compatibility.
Of course, ubuntu will need to build up his own repo for ubuntu-gis, and
obviously out of debian infrastructure...
Patches will be mergeable among d-gis and u-gis, as already done in
main. The whole thing will be under responsability of every maintainers.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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