Re: PGDG repo differences for RHEL 6.6 / 7.

Hi,

On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 11:57 +0000, Graeme B. Bell wrote:

> We use PGDG rpms for postgres and postgis, and to make sure postgis works as expected we use the PGDG GDAL build that accompanies it.
> However, we run Centos 7 on some machines (mostly newer development machines) and Centos 6.6 on our servers.
>
> Is there a reason why the RHEL6 branch of PGDG uses gdal 1.9, whereas the RHEL7 branch uses gdal 1.11?

We always try to use new technologies in newer releases. GDAL 1.11 has
some features that people will benefit.

> Currently because PGDG postgis/gdal rpms are built against two different versions of gdal which means our systems aren't consistent.
> For example, drivers, bugfixes/performance are different.
>
> For GIS database work it would be great if we could keep these consistent and then we know that GDAL-originating errors will be replicable in both environments.

Well, you can always build your RPMs on CentOS 7 machines using the
SRPMs for CentOS 6. We cannot stick with old version for long time.

Regards,

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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