Re: BUG #8463: Packaging problem with postgis rpms

Hi,

Thanks for the report. I created

http://wiki.pgrpms.org/ticket/141

to track this bug. There is another critical ticket pending for RHEL 6
packages, so expect the new package pretty soon.

Regards, Devrim

On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 13:56 +0000, kyrimis(at)alumni(dot)princeton(dot)edu wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 8463
> Logged by: Kriton Kyrimis
> Email address: kyrimis(at)alumni(dot)princeton(dot)edu
> PostgreSQL version: 9.2.4
> Operating system: Scientific Linux 6.4
> Description:
>
> (I am submitting this report here, as I assume that the rpms downloaded from
> yum.postgresql.org are built by postgresql and not by postgis.)
>
>
> The latest release of the postgis2_92* rpms (version 2.0.4) introduced a new
> package, postgis2_92-client, containing, among other things, the postgis
> shared library. This creates the problem that, after updating an existing
> system, the shared libraries disappear, and postgis stops working, producing
> the error "postgis2_92-client-2.0.4-1" whenever a query involving postgis is
> executed.
>
>
> At the very least, the postgis2_92 package should depend on the
> postgis2_92-client package, so that updating the former will also install
> the latter, thus avoiding breaking existing systems.
>
>
>

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