Been quiet lately. On the list anyway. I've now got 8 libraries using Koha. It's definitely time for me to start developing that Debian package that I talked about. I've now learned how to use DebConf for the configuration questions. The unfortunate side effect of this will be to make it _more_ difficult to build the rpm packages that everyone will doubtless clamor for, but it shouldn't be too hard to work around when it comes to that. Just won't be as pretty as with Debian. :) I'm now at the point of needing a "starting point" database population. I remember from my first efforts at installing Koha that the database dump that came with the tarball was missing a few things, like accounts info, branches, etc. that left Koha unusable. I guess I'll just have to ask these questions during the installation process. Alternatively, I could just have a "dummy" branch installed by default. If the user actually has multiple branches, they will use the new web-based branch editor that will be added to Koha at some point. :) Another tricky part is going to be configuring Apache. For Debian, the config files shouldn't be difficult to find, they'll be either /etc/apache/* or /etc/apache-ssl/*. Don't know about RedHat. Will deal with that when the Debian package is done, I guess. I don't really want the Koha install script to start messing around with configuring network interfaces, so it will most likely require that the user set up two aliases for Koha, including DNS lookups, and then enter these values into the configuration questions. I can then modify the apache config files appropriately and reload apache. This message is just intended to announce my intentions, and to let the list members know that I'm still around. :) Steve Tonnesen tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca Coast Mountains School District Hazelton, BC, CANADA
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