[Koha] 1.2.0 Problems

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I think there needs to be tighter Quality control on the releases.

Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC


> Subj:Re: [Koha] 1.2.0 Problems 
> Date:6/20/2002 4:34:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:pate at eylerfamily.org">pate at eylerfamily.org</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:broot at gslis.utexas.edu">broot at gslis.utexas.edu</A>
> CC:<A HREF="mailto:koha at lists.katipo.co.nz">koha at lists.katipo.co.nz</A>, <A HREF="mailto:Koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net">Koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net</A>
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> 
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Shane Williams wrote:
> 
> > I've been watching Koha's progress for a couple of years now.  I tried
> > 1.04, had some install troubles (with CDK in particular) and put it on
> > the backburner.
> 
> Thanks for sticking with Koha.
> 
> >
> > In any case, I decided 1.20 was a good point to reassess things.
> > Things are looking much better (thank you so much for the web
> > interface, now I don't have to monkey with CDK).  That said, I've had
> > a number of problems with 1.20 as well. Looking at the recent list
> > archive I can see that others are having trouble with 1.2.0 as well.
> >
> 
> Yep, there are some issues with 1.2.0, a 1.2.1 release to fix the things
> we've seen should be out shortly.
> 
> > I just wanted to lay out a few of the problems I've had (some may be
> > repititions of other's posts).
> >
> > 1) Several links to koha.some.where/cgi-bin/koha/etc. that failed
> > based on the example <VirtualHost> entries.  My solution was to change
> > my ScriptAlias entry in httpd.conf to:
> >
> >    ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/
> > instead of:
> >    ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/koha/cgi-bin/
> >
> >
> > 2) On the members/index.html there's a link to members/results-add.html,
> > but no such file exists.
> >
> >
> > 3) The other problem, which Pete mentioned in his "koha install problems
> > on RH 7.2 MORE DATA" is that all but one of the scripts in
> > koha/cgi-bin/admin/ have compilation problems.  For instance, running
> > perl -cw branches.pl leads to:
> >
> > Scalar value @biblioitems[$x] better written as $biblioitems[$x] at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/C4/Reserves2.pm line 189,
> > <KC> line 6.
> > "my" variable $sth masks earlier declaration in same scope at
> > branches.pl line 192, <KC> line 6.
> > Too many arguments for C4::Output::mklink at branches.pl line 262,
> > near "'')"
> > branches.pl had compilation errors.
> >
> >
> > 4) A few other notes.  In the INSTALL file, there are a few confusing
> > spots.  One is that database name in all the mysql commands is Koha,
> > but in the sample koha.conf file it's koha.  Also, at least with perl
> > 5.005 the -I option must come before the script name, so the command:
> >
> > perl scripts/updater/updatedatabase -I /pathtoC4
> > should probably read (and why not point to the pathtoC4 dir):
> >
> > perl -I modules/ scripts/updater/updatedatabase
> >
> >
> > All in all though, things are looking good.  Once the admin scripts
> > get fixed up, I'll start showing it off to the folks here at the
> > Library and Information Science School.  Thanks for all the hard work.
> >
> 
> Great!  Please let us know how things go.  And what we can do to help make
> the presentation go more smoothly.
> 
> -pate
> 
> >

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