[Koha] 1.2.0 Problems

User genjimoto genjimoto at webmail.visp.co.nz
Mon Jun 24 18:55:45 NZST 2002 

> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, ed sharpe wrote:
> 

> Ed, this would be a wonderful place to get to.  It will take time (and
> some $$$) to do so though.  
> (or someone to pay us to pay staff to do do it).
oh.. Where do i get a koha testing job?

>  We'll also need to build
> a test harness that we can use to verify that the install went as 
>planned.
Test harness?

> Once those are handled, it will be important to account for 
>differences in
> the way some tools get installed.  (How many ways can apace be 
>installed
> on a server?)
> 
> Given all of the difficulties, I hope that this is one area that 
emerging
> koha support companies can/will take on.  I also hope it is an area 
where
> libraries (or other interested parties) will be willing to step up and
> commit resources.
A koha support business... hmm.. how would i create one?
 
> >
> > what needs to be done is to determine which environments this 
should be I
> > suppose.
> >
> 
> We could build a wishlist, but since we're talking about volunteers, I
> think we're going to end up supporting whatever people are willing to 
work
> on (probably Red Hat and Debian at first), or people are willing to 
pay
> people to work on (I'm not sure what systems fall into this category).
> 
> 
> -pate
> 
> > ed sharpe archivist for smecc
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pat Eyler" <pate at eylerfamily.org>
> > To: <COURYHOUSE at aol.com>
> > Cc: <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>; <Koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Koha] 1.2.0 Problems
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think there needs to be tighter Quality control on the 
releases.
> > >
> > > This sounds like a good challenge for us to take up.  We're 
working on
> > > quality control, believe it or not ;). the 1.2 release series 
mark the
> > > first non-katipo releases, which mean that there will be a bit of 
a
> > > learning curve for us all.  Hopefully as we crest theat curve, 
you'll be
> > > seeing things improve (note for example the 1.2.1 release, coming 
soon,
> > > that is undergoing additional testing prior to its release).
> > >
> > > Beyond this, it would be nice if people who where willing to test
> > > pre-releases would sign up on the devel list.  We announce the 
releases
> > > and make release candidate (RC) tarballs to that list (The 1.2.0 
release
> > > had three RC tarballs before we got to the release.)
> > >
> > > If anyone else has thoughts about how we can improve the quality 
of
> > > upcoming releases, I'd love to hear them.
> > >
> > > -pate
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 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>
> > > > > Sent from the Internet
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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