I appreciate it.
One question I have - or worry about - so on my main machine I run QGIS
2.8.x and I also run PostGIS/Postgres from installed from UbuntuGIS. I
don't have a "server" - so everything runs locally.
I noticed on my laptop that I can get PostGIS/PostGres now from the main
ubuntu repositories. I worry that at some point QGIS (from QGIS repo)
and postgis/postgres (from ubuntu) will drift....in other words I can't
install one because the other has different dependencies. Could that
happen? I'm not enough of a packaging expert to know (although I want to
learn).
That's been my big hesitation on switching to the QGIS repositories -
I'm starting down a road that makes my life harder as opposed to easier
(and I think my life is easier with ubuntugis).
Thank you for the information.
Randy
On 08/06/2015 03:40 AM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
Hi Randal,
On Wed, 05. Aug 2015 at 22:04:11 -0400, Randal Hale wrote:
I like the way Ubuntu lines up with Debian - I'm just fighting the
urge to switch to the QGIS repos.
As far as I'm concerned that's what you should do. We build packages based on
the plain distributions and ubuntugis unstable. We even have nightlies of the
latest release, the long term release and master based on the plain
distributions and ubuntugis unstable.
All are built automatically and in the same way - ie. without launchpad (which
only supports ubuntu).
So this is partly to get launchpad out of the equation, but mainly because we
have more than one (or two) repositories.
I'm on 2.8.1 on my main machine. I've not been notified that 2.10 is
ready...I'm slightly concerned I've missed something where I need to update
my repo for 2.10 or to get 2.8.2. I switched my laptop to 2.10 (qgis repos).
I'm pretty sure 2.10 isn't ready on unstable and that's fine - I'm just
getting worried I've missed something.
Well, that's also a problem. I consider 2.10.1 the latest release, while
others consider 2.8.3 the latest "real" release and 2.10.1 some sort of
development version. Currently 2.8.x tells you that 2.10 is out if you check
the version in the help menu.
I would love to be able to have both 2.10 and 2.8.x installed - I'm pretty
sure that would cause someone more headaches than I wish on anyone.
That could be done. I do it on OSGeo4W, but I didn't see enough motivation to
do it for the debs.
The grass breakages are a pain....but I'm hoping it gets better. I know it's
a new release. The OSGEO4W release on windows always makes me a bit envious
of that side of life.
Well, look at the 64bit build in OSGeo4W - it still ships with GRASS 6.4.3.
The GRASS project only maintains the 32bit builds (of 6 and 7 - also including
nightlies), but didn't yet get to build a 64bit version (6.4.3 is still my
initial build from 2013 - I provided my patches and notes back then, but
apparently they also have too many branches on too many platforms to make it an
priority too).
So in 32bit you can install GRASS 6 and 7 in parallel and QGIS supports both of
them (not at the same time, but you get shortcuts to start QGIS with either
version) and on 64bit you only have one. But both have the GRASS plugin
currently available only with GRASS 6.
In debian there currently is no GRASS 7 and hence the packaging was not
updated. It will once something breaks...
Jürgen
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