Re: [DebianGIS] libgdal renaming

[Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org>]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Silke Reimer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:22:14AM -0800, Jon Saints wrote:
> > Lets clarify and visualize the process...
> >  
> >  1. We patch our own gdal 1.3.1 sources and rename the actual library to
>       include the version number 
> >  2. upload packages to debian
> >  3. recompile all realted software once only (mapserver, qgis etc)
> >     (*** will we need to patch these sources also to find the right gdal library? **)
> >  4. A new gdal 1.3.2 comes out
> >  5. we patch the gdal sources and name the new library 1.3.2
> >  6. upload to debian
> >  7. mapserver and qgis will continue to run as is.  They can upgrade to
>       new gdal at their leisure because old gdal library 1.3.1 will still be in
>       the debian repository.
> >  
> >  Does any one see any problems with the process?  If we would need to
> >  also patch mapserver and qgis sources inorder to use libgdal1.3.1.so
> >  instead of libgdal1.so then I dont think this is a good way to do it.
> 
> If we patch gdal-config as well it probably won't be necessary to patch
> other packages. But I see another point that could be difficult: It won't
> be possible to install more than on gdal-dev or gdal-bin package since the
> binaries still havn't the version number included. Is this a problem?

I don't see a problem with requiring only one version of gdal-bin. Maybe
we can use the alternatives system to have concurrent installs of
different gdal-config versions.

Steve