New package proposal.

[Devrim GUNDUZ]

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Hi,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> The first one might be PostGIS, which provides spatial extensions to
>> PostgreSQL. This packages needs proj, geos, and gdal, and I can also
>> provide them.
>
> PROJ is in Fedora Extras already. GEOS (first 1.x, the 2.x was needed) and
> GDAL have been worked on in old fedora.us QA queue before. After lots of
> packaging problems, a circular dependency between GDAL and GRASS (and lack
> of decision on how to proceed until a solution would be found/developed)
> stopped development of the packages. Meanwhile, one of the solutions
> proposed in bugzilla.fedora.us (an interface library for GDAL+GRASS)
> has been developed by Debian's GIS community.
>
> For reference, the links to the old tracker:
> GEOS - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1394
> GDAL - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1964
>
> Packages proposed for inclusion into Fedora Extras should try to avoid
> (most of) the issues discussed in there. [The ticket for GDAL has been
> an exceptionally long one.]

Ok, will work on those bugs...

Regards,
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