FYI, I've uploaded gdal 1.7.3 for Lucid in the PPA. If you want to rebuild it for karmic, you can download it here:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable/+packages and you can check what are the needed changes for karmic here: http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/browser/packages/gdal/karmic/trunk/debian/changelog especially the following section: gdal (1.7.2-4~karmic1) karmic; urgency=low regards, Alan On November 26, 2010 09:17:28 am Alan Boudreault wrote: > Tom, > > non-LTS releases are only supported for 1 year after they are released. We > highly recommend to only use LTS releases for your servers. > > Alan > > On November 26, 2010 09:11:48 am Tom Holderness wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > Thanks for your reply. How come Karmic isn't supported any more? I was > > hoping to put off upgrading my processing server to 10.04 untill the New > > Year, but there are fixes in GDAL 1.7.3 from bugs that I've submitted. I > > guess I can try using the karmic package untill then. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tom > > > > On 26 November 2010 13:48, Alan Boudreault <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > > > Yes, packaging 1.7.3 is on my list. However, Karmic is no longer > > > supported, so I wont build the package for it. Once the package for > > > Lucid will be made.. it should very easy to rebuild it on your karmic > > > machine without (or a few) modifications (IIRC). > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > On November 26, 2010 08:38:52 am Tom Holderness wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was just wondering if there are any plans to build GDAL 1.7.3 soon > > > > > > > > (specifically for Karmic in my case), If someone tells me what's > > > > > > involved, > > > > > > > I'd be happy to join the team and try building myself. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Alan Boudreault > > > > > > Mapgears > > > > > > http://www.mapgears.com -- Alan Boudreault Mapgears http://www.mapgears.com _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
