[Community] Newbie quick questions.

[Kai Lautaportti]

Alex Mandel wrote:
> 1. Is there a searchable archive of list traffic, say on something like 
> gmane.org. I just joined to today but I want to make sure my questions 
> haven't been asked before.

Nabble has been tracking our list for some time now, so you can use that
to search recent archives:

  http://www.nabble.com/PrimaGIS-f15803.html

The older archives are at

  http://lists.gispython.org/pipermail/community/

but unfortunately there's no search interface.

> 
> 2. Looking briefly at the archive from this month I saw a comment from 
> Kai that buildout 1.0 doesn't work. I just finished getting buildout 1.0 
> to work, at least it appears to be working(PrimaGIS installed in Plone ok),
> after 0.1 failed miserably for me.
> Side note, neither worked on 64-bit, I'll get back to working on that 
> later as it's a make problem with one of the referenced programs.

OK, good to know. I need to run the full buildout myself to see what the
status is. Just to clarify things, you are talking about *buildit*
versions 0.1 and 1.0, right?


> 
> 3. Look for a ticket later tonight with a diff for the 
> primagis.buildout. Some of the files referenced have moved and I updated 
> the ini files. There's also a quirk with the mapserver build where I had 
> to use my system libgd because it didn't like the buildout one. I'm not 
> positive if it's because the lib was labeled 2.0.0 and it wanted 2.0.16+ 
> or if it really didn't like the build.

That's weird. The buildout builds gd 2.0.33 which should satisfy
mapserver fine.

> 
> Summary of fixes to the buildout:
> psycopg version change to 2-2.0.6, 2-2.0.5.1 not available online
> http://cvs.gis.umn.edu/dist/mapserver-4.8.4.tar.gz moved to 
> http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-4.8.4.tar.gz
> I don't have the original hash so I can't tell if they are identical or 
> not but the buildout took it.

Right, those URLs need to be updated.

> 
> Ah and for those curious, I did the build on Ubuntu 7.04 in a 32-bit 
> chroot because my system is 64bit.

Thanks for trying this out!

cheers,
Kai


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