Alan, I've upgraded 1.7.3 from the PPA on my Lucid box and GDAL is working well in my software - many thanks for this.
Alex, thanks for the info about the backporting tool. I'll have a look, I think that soon that I'm going to make some time and upgrade the server to 10.04, but this may be a useful stop-gap. regards, Tom http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/tom.holderness/pyraster/ On 26 November 2010 21:47, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugis/+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 >
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