PostGIS package built with libgdal1h

[darkblueb]

johanvdw has built a PostGIS package using libgdal1h and PostgreSQL 9.3, in his own PPA. This ticket is to track intermediate steps while we find the right organization of PPAs.

[darkblueb]

A fundemental challenge is -- apt.postgresql.org has a package called postgis, which is built on a different libgdal. It is possible to prioritize a PPA with something like this, in /etc/apt/preferences.d/

Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-johanvdw-osgeolive
Pin-Priority: -10
 
Package: postgis
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-johanvdw-osgeolive
Pin-Priority: 600

diagnostics are available with:

apt-cache policy
apt-cache show postgis

[darkblueb]

from IRC: you shouldn't need to disable the repos, just prioritise the packages from your preferred repo

when you have conflicting packages its good to set the unwanted pages to a lower priority (or negative priority preferably) and only prioritise the necessary packages above all else. issues of couse do arise when there's dependencies involved and you may need to set priorities for a number of packages

[kalxas]

We have moved to one PPA for OSGeoLive, so this gets closed.