Re: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

2009-07-02 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
 Does anyone know this code? It appears as though the gmt-coast-low is  
 not sufficient for zyGrib and magics++,
 and I'm not familiar with the history of gmt beyond the README.  Any  
 ideas or recommendations as to how to proceed?

 
 Just for note, the downloading script can be used in non interactive
 way so a debconf based postinst step to download at installation 
 (or any later) time the required files could be considered. I'm too 
 lazy to provide that myself, but a patch for that could be considered for 
 the gmt data package could be useful. 
 
 That said, the whole arch-indep 
 data set is probably much less a concerning for storage of some years
 ago, but that could be confirmed only by ftp-masters and mirror
 maintainers. There were some discussions in the past about a data
 providing infrastructure, but I missed the whole thread conclusion
 (if any).
 

We're still waiting for the necessary hardware (mainly: storage) to be 
sponsored...

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Re: [DebianGIS-dev] maps / coastline files within Debian

2009-06-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:

 Does anyone know this code? It appears as though the gmt-coast-low is  
 not sufficient for zyGrib and magics++,
 and I'm not familiar with the history of gmt beyond the README.  Any  
 ideas or recommendations as to how to proceed?


Just for note, the downloading script can be used in non interactive
way so a debconf based postinst step to download at installation 
(or any later) time the required files could be considered. I'm too 
lazy to provide that myself, but a patch for that could be considered for 
the gmt data package could be useful. 

That said, the whole arch-indep 
data set is probably much less a concerning for storage of some years
ago, but that could be confirmed only by ftp-masters and mirror
maintainers. There were some discussions in the past about a data
providing infrastructure, but I missed the whole thread conclusion
(if any).

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine

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