Re: Packages maintained by Debian GIS but not mentioned in metapackages
Hi Andrew,
thanks for your interesting hints.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 09:56:04AM +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> On 15/03/13 00:43, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > tilecache - a web map tile caching system
> > tilelite - lightweight Mapnik tile-server
> > tilestache - map tiles caching system
> > --> osm (but with a very bad feeling here - it rather belongs to some
> > not yet existing task osm-server IMHO)
>
> I would be hesitant at calling these osm-server tasks. They are web map
> tile servers. They serve all kinds of maps, not just maps using OSM data.
OK, very interesting point.
> I would try to use some kind of "map-server" task (not to be confused
> with the mapserver package though).
>
> This would included (though not all of these are packaged for Debian yet):
> tilecache
> tilelite
> tilestache
Fine.
> mapserver
You mean binary package 'mapserver-bin' ?
> geoserver
What exact package do you mean - I can not find some binary package name
to match this.
> twms
OK
> tirex
> renderd
> mod_tile
What exact packages do you mean - I can not find binary packages matching
these names in the Debian package pool.
> I'm not too up to speed to blends or tasks so I'm not sure how
> appropriate this suggestion is.
You mention binary package names a metapackage should depend from to
prepare a machine with all things you need to serve a certain purpose
(task).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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