Re: [DebianGIS] building gdal-1.3.1 packages
On 10/7/05, Jon Saints <saintsjd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This brings up an interesting question... these
> packages are now postgresql version specific. What is
> the best way to deal with the new multi-posgresql in
> terms of the gdal package? Do I need to make two
> gdals, one for postgres-7.4 and another for
> postgres-8.0?
Jon,
>From GDAL's point of view it can access either version given
either version of the client libraries. That is, all version
specific decisions are done at runtime.
But if it came down to this, I would advocate just supporting
the postgres 8 version. I would add if necessary we could
have a separate gdal-postgres plugin driver like we do with
GRASS.
> New to packaging and I could use the opinion of some
> experts.
I should stress I am not a debian packaging expert.
Best regards,
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