[postgis-users] Gentoo/Debian Packages using 1.1.0CVS?

[Gérald Fenoy]

Hi,
as David said, we use the cvs version because of it doesn't need to  
have postgresql sources code. Indeed if we use the lastest 1.0.X  
version then we need postgresql sources, so the postgis independent  
ebuild is not necessary. Indeed as you could see here : http:// 
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38062 this idea has allready been  
done by somes. Our choice it's so to use our own cvs tar ball (which  
is available on postgis.fr and updated every hours), the new  
postgis-1.0.1_p20050914.ebuild is available here : http:// 
www.postgis.fr/gentoo/dev-db/postgis/postgis-1.0.4_p20050914.ebuild  
and we've made tests to check if the version we've downloaded  
correspond to the lastest 1.0.4 release. As sandro said there could  
be some trouble for those user which use this ebuilds, but gentoo  
manages packages in a such way that we can't use an ebuild called  
1.1.0CVS-20050915, since it doesn't respect gentoo ebuild  
specifications. Furthermore if we have a postgi-1.1.0_p20050915 then  
when the (so awaiting/lovely) 1.1.0 version will be out, we can't  
emerge the postgis-1.1.0.ebuild since the postgis-1.1.0- 
p20050915.ebuild will be removed, that's why we use this version  
syntaxe (in fact at the begining we use another ebuild called postgis- 
cvs, but after speacking with somem gentoo's devs we decide to  
respect the gentoo standard ebuild specification and to put the  
postgis-cvs ebuild into postgis-1.0.X_pdate which mean that is the  
patch branch of the 1.0.X version).

Hope I correctly answer your queries ....


Cordially.


Le 15 sept. 05 à 11:15, strk at refractions.net a écrit :

> David, I understand the will to switch to 1.1.X, but users
> are reporting packages to be versioned 1.0.X ! Also no 1.1.X
> release is out yet, distributing packages for it would increase
> confusion (what version would users be referring to when saying
> 1.1.0CVS ?).
>
> I suggest you clearly state the package contains a CVS snapshot and
> patch the Version.config file to include update time in version
> (like 1.1.0CVS-20050915), using same naming convention for the package
> itself.
>
> --strk;
>

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