You may have misunderstood, our policy is take what's in Ubuntugis-unstable repos not stock ubuntu repos, at least for geospatial packages. So we are rarely behind much in versions. Grass 7 is there, QGIS 2.8.2 is there, Postgis 2.1, GDAL 1.11.2 etc ...
+1 to Angelos' notes on why we use LTS these days. We do also run updates before building so Firefox version etc are up to date too. Thanks, Alex On 05/21/2015 11:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > Hi, > > Three years ago we were using the latest 11.04 release, but the last couple > of years we have switched to build only on top of LTS releases for > stability. > Before Trusty, we made some effort to backport packages to precise, and I > think the result was a good one, plus we pushed those updates to UbuntuGIS. > > Given the latest switch of Ubuntu 15.04 to systemd, I would strongly advise > to stay on 14.04 LTS, until systemd gets stable enough to use as a base > (16.04 LTS) > > The software versions (the ones we maintain) will not be the same as in 8.5. > > Best, > Angelos > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Activity Workshop < > m...@activityworkshop.net> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Around this time in the build cycle I often get asked "what version of >> software should we take into the build process?" and I always answer >> the same thing - take the default package from the Ubuntu repositories >> which you're using for the build. It's just the easiest way for everyone. >> >> For OSGeo-Live 9.0, I'm not sure but I think I heard that you will >> continue to use Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty as the base because it's an LTS >> version. Is that true? And if so, do you have any plans to take >> certain packages from later versions of Ubuntu, like 15.04, or is that >> too risky in terms of breaking stuff? >> I think that OSGeo-Live should be a kind of showcase for what's >> currently available, and if everything comes from 14.04 repositories, >> then there'll be no difference between OSGeo-Live 8.5 and 9.0, right? >> Do you have any plans for how to update the geo applications without >> having to update the whole Ubuntu underneath? >> >> Thanks, >> activityworkshop >> _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
