Re: "yum update" breaking postgis 2.0 installations?

Hi,

I know the issue, and working on it. I will try to install
postgis-2.0.so file by compiling 2.0 sources :(

Regards, Devrim

On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 15:13 +0200, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I had a PostGIS 2.0 package running on CentOS 64 (64 bit). Today I
> typed:
>
> yum update
>
> The update involved the "postgis2_92" package as well.
>
> At the end of the process, the existing databases using PostGIS 2.0
> started to break and generate errors, complaining that the
> $libdir/postgis-2.0.so file was missing.
>
> I inspected and noticed that this update forces to move users from
> 2.0 to 2.1, even though full compatibility seems not to be guaranteed
> between these two versions (see
> http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/release_notes.html#id707272).
>
> For the moment I have copied the .so file from the production server,
> and it seems ok. Unfortunately I won't be able to file a detailed report
> until tomorrow morning, as I am busy for the rest of the afternoon.
> Could you please investigate/confirm/reply in the meanwhile?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriele
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>
>

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