On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Cameron Shorter <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggest you try migrating one application to a .deb file, and see how > feasible it is, then we can work out a strategy for the rest of the > applications. > > I suspect that the migration to ubuntu/debian will be a long term thing, > which will take a year or two before we finish. As an interim measure, we > could create a "Production Server" version using the same build scripts we > use for OSGeo-Live.
I think it would be a nice idea to create some kind of osgeo repository at some point. Having packages of osgeo products which can easily be installed and uninstalled would be very nice. On the other hand creating packages for some packages may prove to be very difficult if we want to keep up with all debian packaging guidelines (a *lot* of java libraries will have to be packed, which may/may not have an upstream with sensible source releases. Apart from that, license problems may keep out many packages (all (almost all?) java packages use JAI, which is non-free software, incompatible with the GPL-license of many of the java packages). A similar (but less problematic) situation for mapguide, which relies on openssl (which is open source, but in principle not compatible with GPL). If osgeo provides a repository which is perhaps a little less strict in its packaging guidelines, eg allowing java packages with their libraries not built from source, less strict licensing guidelines, allow installation under /opt these packages may still be provided (hopefully an intermediate staging step until they can be provided in debian). Anyway, before releasing any server packages of osgeo projects I think we should think about how security updates can be provided for the packages we provide. If these are simple (applying a patch and recompiling, replace a jar with a new version) this is possible. If the upstream project does not release fixes (or only in versions which are incompatible with the current release) it is impossible to support them (and it would be unwise to use it anyway). If we have a repository, I doubt whether having a seperate server dvd is so useful. I guess most server admins will choose one project/platform to base their application on. I don't see the why we should have an installation which provides eg geoserver and mapguide and mapserver (etc). _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
