Issue discovered while using a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 VirtualBox image

[jrgriffiniii]

Hello Everyone,

I believe that I may have identified a potential issue. I was installing PostGIS within a CentOS 6.4 environment (using the VirtualBox image at the URL http://developer.nrel.gov/downloads/vagrant-boxes/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-v20131103.box), and I found that there appeared to be a conflict involving this Module and puppet-postgresql:

class { 'postgresql::globals':
    manage_package_repo => true,
}
[...]
include ::postgis

This fails with the error that $libdir cannot be resolved from within the appropriate SQL file for PostGIS (in this case, /usr/pgsql-8.4/share/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql). From what I could best determine, this can be traced to an error which arises when the postgresql-server package is installed using the yum.

I've attempted to resolve this by setting manage_package_repo to false, only to find a plethora of issues plaguing the installation process arising from deprecated releases of the GDAL releases (when attempting to install PostGIS from another third-party yum repository).

I've handled this locally by simply invoking sed to replace $libdir within the needed SQL files during the creation of PostGIS databases. I certainly understand if this is far too low a priority an issue to address (CentOS 6.4 and PostGIS 1.5 are quite old).

Please note that, should this more properly be resolved by the maintainers of puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql, I've created the JIRA issue MODULES-1635.

Thank you greatly for your time and contributions.