Comments on: Koha 3 Packaging

By: chris

chris — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:07:10 +0000

Yeah they were never meant to be used in any kind of ‘real’ sense. They were a mix of packages from my packaging branch, and packages from your git tree Vincent. I’ve removed them for now as people seemed to be using them to try and install Koha for real.

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By: Vincent Danjean

Vincent Danjean — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:58:59 +0000

Please, if you create binary packages from my git tree, remove them immediately : they are not at all ready to be used.
My git tree is only useful for people working on the packaging for now. There are lots of missing things and lots of bugs I’m aware.
So, please, do not provide binary packages. People really interested (and ready to help me on the packaging) will know how to build them. Others cannot/should not use them for now. As I’m a Debian developer, koha packages will be in unstable as soon as they will be in a clean enough state.

In summary: packages build from my sources are expected NOT to work at all for now. Even upgrades to my future packages are not expected to work (even with a purge !)

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By: chris

chris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:16:27 +0000

These packages are just the ones built from the work at git.debian.org, I dont mantain them, I just built them for my own testing purposes only. So bugreporting to me, won’t get you that far 🙂
They aren’t finished, or expected to work totally, Vincent is still working on packaging. When they are finished like I said I will do a post then.
For now, you are far better off (unless you want to work on fixing the packages). Folloing the INSTALL.debian file that comes with the Koha tar ball and installing using the make file.

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By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:32:45 +0000

Looks like an earlier post was lost. So, repeating it here. Obviously, the earlier post was a bit ambiguous due to lack of knowledge, and I was posting from w3mmee; so probably lost. I did a fresh install of Debian sid aka unstable amd64 and used the koha packages from here. So, the bug / install reports naturally are posted here.

1. the packages do not create /etc/koha directory. So, dpkg|apt|aptitude fails when trying to write /etc/koha/*.conf I manually created the /etc/koha directory.

2. There is a problem with perl @INC path. Unless /etc/bash.bashrc is edited to add the PERL5LIB and KOHA_PATH variables, nothing else works on Debian. At least for me. The suse11 HOWTO on kohadocs.org suggested adding the variables to /etc/bash.bashrc.local.

3. The mod_rewrite module has to be enabled. How about adding a check in the install scripts to check if there is a symlink in apache2’s mods-enabled directory?

4. koha-httpd.conf has to be put / symlinked in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.

I have been struggling to get koha working for past 3 days, of 2 have been spent on installing deian; nothing worked, and finally had to resort to “debootstrap”. 😉 That is but, another story.

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By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:36:17 +0000

And another suggestion – please consider including some check in the installer scripts to check if the mod_rewrite.so has been enabled (check for symlink in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ directory to /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load )

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By: chris

chris — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:18:32 +0000

No, they aren’t in debian yet as they arent finished. When they are in debian the bugs will go in the debian bug tracker. Ill do a big post when they are actually finished.

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