Hi rich,
thanks for your comments.
for a production server I could have suggested Debian stable, but I
really haven't yet had any problems with testing...
But to be on the safe side (eg for a production server), you are right;
take Debian stable :-)
About the postgis package, currently testing has postgresql-8.3, but not
yet a postgresql-8.3-postgis package. If someone can confirm it's just
usable with 8.3 that would be fine. Using apt-get postgresql-postgis
appears to return me the 8.1 version, or a 'nothing found warning' on
different machines.
To be sure that this cookbook was working I did the 8.2 version (thereby
taking 8.2 and some debian warning message into account). I was trying
it during the writing on a freshly installed server, to check everything.
I will try to update instructions accordingly in the future.
Regards,
Richard Duivenvoorde
rich.fromm wrote:
Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
I just wrote a quick and dirty cookbook howto for debian:
http://www.duif.net/postgis
I also run mapserver on debian (though etch and sarge, not lenny; and build
from source, not install mapserver dpkgs). Glancing at your notes, I have
one minor comment:
On your apt-get install line, why specifically "postgresql-8.2-postgis" ?
Imho, it's better in general not to specify the version unless you have a
specific need for a specific version, and instead just let the packaging
system pick what is the most appropriate version. So unless there's a
specific need, I would ammend that to say simply "postgresql-postgis". That
way your instructions are a bit generic, and if someone is trying them in
the future on some other distribution where that maps to a different
version, they're not constrained to a specific version (there might be
something later, or maybe 8.2 isn't even available for their distribution).
Unless, of course, there's some reason that you really need that particular
version. (Although on etch and sarge I'm using 8.1 implicitly and all is
fine.)
Also, if someone is brand new to linux, I might first suggest a released,
stable distribution (sarge), and not one that's only available in testing.
- Rich
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