[Nix-dev] Postgis issues

adam at gamb.co adam at gamb.co
Tue Nov 18 14:14:33 CET 2014


Doh! No postgis.control, but just realized I should be using the SQL 
instead.

Thanks

On 2014-11-18 14:01, Wout Mertens wrote:
> Does the postgis 1.5.8 package include the postgis.control file? If
> so, there must be an issue with the code handling the postgres
> extraPlugins. If not, fix the postgis package :)
> 
> On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 1:40:48 PM <adam at gamb.co> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> New to Nix, I can't figure out where i'm going wrong with postgis.
>> Known
>> issue building 1_5_1 so i'm skipping to 1_5_8 using `callPackage`.
>> 
>> Configured as follows:
>> 
>>    services.postgresql = {
>>      enable = true;
>>      package = pkgs.postgresql;
>>      extraPlugins = [ (pkgs.callPackage
>> /path/to/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/postgis {}).v_1_5_8 ];
>>    };
>> 
>> Rebuilding OS works fine. Postgis appears to install (I can see
>> postgis-1.5.so [1]), but i'm missing `postgis.control` and
>> presumably one
>> extra step?
>> 
>> 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis; ERROR:  could not open extension
>> control file
>> 
> "/nix/store/[...]-postgresql-and-plugins-9.2.9/share/extension/postgis.control"'
>> 
>> Greatly appreciate any tips on how to debug this.
>> 
>> Adam
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> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://postgis-1.5.so
> [2] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev


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