I'll note an easy way to test porting a package back one version of Ubuntu is to use the Prevu tool. Here's a rough guide https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Prevu
Thanks, Alex On 11/26/2010 12:17 PM, Alan Boudreault wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
