[Package Request] - GDAL

[stev-0]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name. gdal, gdal-devel, python3-gdal, gdal-python-tools

Is this an update to existing package or new package request? New package request

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? No

Number of users impacted Many downstream geospatial packages including QGIS server, geopandas, fiona, rasterio, and is a very useful data transformation library on its own. In the tens to hundreds of thousands of people I would guess

[ecofor]

Also here interested

[grantmcdermott]

Adding support to this request by noting that GDAL provides common backend support across several other languages beyond Python too (including R and Julia's geospatial data science stack).

On that note, however, building/serving gdal on its own may be insufficient for fully functional geospatial stack. In R land at least, we also require geos, proj, and udunits2.

[Gonsaave]

Leaving a comment here because i'm also interested in this. Currently trying to migrate projects from AL2 to AL2023 and having problems with GDAL.

[kvigulis]

Leaving a comment here because i'm also interested in this. Currently trying to migrate projects from AL2 to AL2023 and having problems with GDAL.

Same here. Haven't been successful with installing GDAL from source on my Amazon Linux 2023 instance.

[alacret]

Same here

[cgostic]

Another bump for GDAL and geos, proj, and udunits2 for (R geospatial processing).

[grantmcdermott]

Aside: geos has been requested separately here. https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/372

(Again IMO it makes sense to provision/install gdal, geos, proj and udunits2 together as part of coherent geospatial stack.)

[chipfranzen]

Yet another bump. We need the whole spatial stack to support python workflows with rasterio.

[Joangaes]

Another bump. This is needed, if not will probably switch from amazon linux.

[fodmap-technical]

Another bump. Extremely frustrated that these packages are not in Amazon linux 2023. Now we are left running round and round to find solution.

[ozbenh]

While I understand your frustration, I would like to point out that those packages are also not in other popular enterprise distributions, at least not in any supported form. That said, we are trying to find a solution

[spawn-guy]

i am building rpm's from source with modified fedora specs. i'd like that to be available as an optional repo

[daniejstriata]

You should be able to then build that rpm inside Fedora COPR and start creating your own repo like me: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/faramirza/al2023 AL2023 is one of the chroots you can build against in COPR. I've added that repo to my AL2023 hosts and get my added/updated packages from it.

[spawn-guy]

@daniejstriata first time I stumbled on Fedora COPR yesterday. And now that you mention it - I will go dig deeper. As an idea to host my own repo on s3 flew through my mind 🤔

[daniejstriata]

@spawn-guy Here is a guide I wrote: https://github.com/amazonlinux/amazon-linux-2023/issues/433#issuecomment-1923164891