On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:22:14AM -0800, Jon Saints wrote:
> Lets clarify and visualize the process...
>
> 1. We patch our own gdal 1.3.1 sources and rename the actual library to
include the version number
> 2. upload packages to debian
> 3. recompile all realted software once only (mapserver, qgis etc)
> (*** will we need to patch these sources also to find the right gdal library? **)
> 4. A new gdal 1.3.2 comes out
> 5. we patch the gdal sources and name the new library 1.3.2
> 6. upload to debian
> 7. mapserver and qgis will continue to run as is. They can upgrade to
new gdal at their leisure because old gdal library 1.3.1 will still be in
the debian repository.
>
> Does any one see any problems with the process? If we would need to
> also patch mapserver and qgis sources inorder to use libgdal1.3.1.so
> instead of libgdal1.so then I dont think this is a good way to do it.
If we patch gdal-config as well it probably won't be necessary to patch
other packages. But I see another point that could be difficult: It won't
be possible to install more than on gdal-dev or gdal-bin package since the
binaries still havn't the version number included. Is this a problem?
Silke
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