[Koha] Creating an INSTALL.opensuse file and Koha 3 and openSUSE versions

[Brendan Gallagher]

Ricardo -

I think that we should create the install file for 11.0 to be  
included in the next release (depending on timing of the next  
release), but a 10.3 file on the wiki could be a good idea.   I  
haven't tried 11.0 OpenSuse yet, but I'm assuming that it is not that  
much different and it sounds a little bit easier!  Please send me any  
information and I'll help compile it.  I'll get to OpenSuse 11.0 as  
soon as I can (most likely tomorrow evening) and create some notes.

I guess once we see the next release (past beta) for Koha 3 - we can  
adjust for that install too.

-Brendan

Brendan A. Gallagher
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On May 20, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Ricardo Dias Marques wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following up the request from Joshua Ferraro asking me to create an
> INSTALL.opensuse file  -
> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-May/013916.html - here I am
> writing some questions regarding WHAT versions of Koha 3 and openSUSE
> I should target.
>
> I'm asking this because:
>
> 1 - openSUSE 11.0 is "just around the corner": the RC1 ("Release
> Candidate 1") is scheduled for the 29th of the current month (May
> 2008). The final version is scheduled for the 19th June -
> http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.0
>
> I already tried to install Koha 3 Beta 2 in the current openSUSE
> available Beta (openSUSE 11 Beta 3). Besides an annoying bug in
> package selection during openSUSE installation ( already acknowledged
> and corrected for RC1: "Package selector doesn't show any pattern" -
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390139 ), the installation
> of Koha wasn't harder than it usually is.
>
> Actually, Koha installation was EASIER on openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3: at
> least, CPAN installation was easier than it was in openSUSE 10.3,
> because CPAN "setup wizard" now asks if it can assume what it thinks
> to be reasonable defaults. If you say "yes", CPAN just sets up itself.
> Pretty neat!  :)
>
> So, my first question is: Should I create documentation for openSUSE
> 10.3 or for openSUSE 11 (Beta 3 / RC 1 / Final)?
>
> I would like very much to get feedback on that. However, I do think
> that the answer to that question depends partially on the answer to
> another question:
>
>
> 2 - Is a Beta 3 / Release Candidate of Koha 3 expected to be  
> available soon?
>
> If a "Beta 3" of Koha is also "just around the corner", then it may
> make sense to create setup instructions based on openSUSE 10.3. If
> we're still moderately far from a Beta 3 / Release Candidate of Koha
> 3, it seems to me that basing the instructions on openSUSE 11 would be
> a "better bet".
>
> Another "issue" would be that it probably makes sense to integrate
> Koha dependencies that were created after Koha 3 Beta 2 (like the
> HTML::Scrubber Perl Module and ImageMagick) in this document.
>
>
> A final (?) question: based on feedback from Jesse (pianohacker at
> gmail.com) and Joshua Ferraro, I'm thinking of "putting" up an initial
> version of this document with instructions to install Koha in openSUSE
> in the Koha Developer's Wiki - http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php - letting
> people review and improve on it (thanks to Brendan Gallagher for
> already having  volunteered to help!), and then putting the "final"
> version in the git tree as the INSTALL.opensuse text file.
>
>
> Comments and questions about all this... please?  :)
>
> Best wishes,
> Ricardo Dias Marques
> lists AT ricmarques DOT net
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