Fedora 15 Update: qgis-1.7.0-4.fc15

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9140
2011-07-08 17:19:02
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Name        : qgis
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.7.0
Release     : 4.fc15
URL         : http://www.qgis.org
Summary     : A user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System
Description :
Geographic Information System (GIS) manages, analyzes, and displays
databases of geographic information. Quantum GIS (QGIS) supports shape file
viewing and editing, spatial data storage with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, projection
on-the-fly, map composition, and a number of other features via a plugin
interface. QGIS also supports display of various geo-referenced raster and
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) formats including GeoTIFF, Arc/Info ASCII Grid,
and USGS ASCII DEM.

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Update Information:

New features since 1.6 in a nutshell:

- QGIS Web Map Server (qgis-mapserver package)
- On-the-fly-reprojection for rasters
- Join tables
- SQLAnywhere vector provider
- Snapping dock you can use while editing

Please find the release notes on the QGIS website:

http://www.qgis.org/component/content/article/127-qgis-1-7-release.html
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul  6 2011 Volker Fröhlich <volker27 at gmx.at> - 1.7.0-4
- Remove icon path macros, that don't work in EPEL
- Avoid creating unnecessary directories there
- Be explicit about the shared lib names in the files section
- Put libqgispython.so.1.7.0 in Python sub-package
- Correct FSF address
* Wed Jul  6 2011 Volker Fröhlich <volker27 at gmx.at> - 1.7.0-3
- Withdraw immature Lighty configuration
- Update README and provide a better sample configuration,
  that utilizes mod_rewrite
* Sun Jun 26 2011 Volker Fröhlich <volker27 at gmx.at> - 1.7.0-2
- Add histogram patch
- Add scriplets to refresh icon cache
- Mention Fedora specific readme file in QGIS mapserver description
- Update the aforementioned file and the Apache configuration
  with rewrite rules
* Sun Jun 26 2011 Volker Fröhlich <volker27 at gmx.at> - 1.7.0-1
- Update for 1.7
- License is now GPLv3+ (Sqlanyconnect)
- Add mapserver sub-package and require mod_fcgi
- Use upstreams current description text
- Drop now needless iconv 
- Rename new Serbian translations
- Install MIME type definitions and icons
- Add Readme file and sample configuration for Mapserver
- Add patch to avoid segfault when geo-referencing
- Add conditional for Spatialite and PPC64
- Add conditional for GRASS and EPEL
- Delete bundled libspatialite before building
- Removed glob from /usr/bin/qgis in files section
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #712620 - [abrt] qgis-1.6.0-3.fc14.1: QgsImageWarper::warpFile: Process /usr/bin/qgis was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712620
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update qgis' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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