[DebianGIS-dev] Help with postgis and backport to lenny using pbuilder

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:52:04PM -0400, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just found pbuilder and I'm using it with the pkg-grass
> debian package definitions for geos-3.2.0 and postgis-1.5.1 building
> packages for lenny. This is all very cool and makes things soo much
> easier. I am also using some packages backports.org.
> 
> So, I have gotten things setup and have been able to build packages,
> but postgis and postgresql-8.3-postgis will not install giving the
> following error:
> 

As a general suggestion, note that pbuilder load packages based
on regular pinning. Generally, you need to add ad-hoc pinned entries
in <pbuilder-root>/etc/apt/preferences to load the correct backported 
build-deps.

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Francesco P. Lovergine