On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mathieu Baudier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean here... Do you need a different 'product' from > > the GeoNode build than the current tarball or the upcoming RPM? > > I'm thinking of the Java part (GeoServer and GeoNetwork). > > There are two approaches: > 1 - simply packaging the WAR files (which include quite a few Java > libs) in the RPM > 2 - having separately packaged GeoServer and GeoNetwork, themselves > depending on separately packages Java libs, etc. with everything > building from source. > > (1) is much easier and is probably the approach that you are following > (and the one I suggested). > (2) is "cleaner" and has long-term benefits, but it is way harder. > That's the JPP/Fedora approach, that we are currently trying to put in > place. > > So, no need for a different 'product'... > > > I'm working with a contractor who knows RPM to bootstrap the RPM package, > > hopefully it can become community-maintained once it is working in the > first > > We have put in place a community around GIS packages on Enterprise > Linux and we are now working actively with the Fedora and EPEL > project: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS > > Don't hesitate to keep us in the loop for EL related stuff, I'm sure > that there can be good synergies. > Please also note that packaging is just one of our activity where we > just complement EPEL. The main purpose is to centralize information > and knowledge around FLOSS GIS software on Enterprise linux. > > > place. We'll announce this on the blog within the next week or so (the > > package is still not "ready for primetime"), but the RPM packages are > > already available at http://yum.opengeo.org/. I've attached a .repo > file > > I tried to browse it or use it through yum, but it requires an > authorization... > Oops, didn't reload the configuration after disabling the password protection. It should actually be accessible now. > > you can use to access the repository in yum (in order to avoid requiring > > many additional repos we are mirroring some EPEL and ELGIS packages as > > well.) > > Are you mirroring automatically? > Not totally automatically, just using yumdownloader to update the hosted packages when uploading a new geonode rpm. > We are working a lot currently in the Java direction and for example > we recently introduced GDAL JNI libraries in collaboration with Fedora > packagers, which can be useful for optimal GeoServer usage. > There is still some work to be done (we are putting in place automated > approaches for JAI/ImageIO deployment etc.) and I would find it great > if we could make sure that we are all working at the same pace and > benefiting from each other progresses and tests! -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
