Forum OpenACS Development: Awesome 5.0 SW Install

1: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works!

Posted by Randy O'Meara on 11/06/03 03:58 AM

I thought I'd try out Lars' new repository install features (awesome feature, BTW) and found that it doesn't quite work. This a brand new CVS HEAD (30 minutes ago) core install.

o go to /acs-admin/install

o follow the "Install new application" link under "Install from OpenACS Repository" heading.

o place a checkmark on Weblogger

o click "Install checked applications"

An error indicating that a prerequisite package is not install which is to be expected (unless it were to add the prerequisite packages automatically... but that should be another thread). The missing prerequisite in this case is "trackback".

What isn't expected is the list of packages that are displayed that were not selected on the previous page:

RSS Support
Notifications
General Comments
Events 0.3d
Date and Time Utilities
Weblogger 1.0d1 Requires trackback 0.1d

OK. So, in response to the message text:

o hit the Back button

o the package that now shows as being selected is "User Profile" which happens to be the package just above "Weblogger" in the selection table.

o now, for fun, click the Forward button and then the Back button

o the package that shows as being selected is now "Ticket Tracker Lite" which happens to be the package above "User Profile"

o hit Forward then Back a few times and the selection will migrate upward one position for each Forward/Back pair.

2: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 1)

Posted by Randy O'Meara on 11/06/03 04:51 AM

I misinterpreted the first message indicating that trackback was required. It looks like the install process *is* resolving prerequisites. The problem is most probably that trackback is not available via the repository.

Could someone add the trackback package to the repository?

The selection migration issue is a real bug.

3: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 1)

Posted by Lars Pind on 11/06/03 10:36 AM

Oops, can you file a bug in bug-tracker for this, pls?

Also, beware that the repository currently sits on one of our development servers, and is only current as of that date!

I'm in the process of generalizing and migrating the script to build the repository of APM files to openacs.org.

Next step: up2date for OpenACS :)

/Lars

4: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 3)

Posted by Randy O'Meara on 11/07/03 03:33 AM

I take it the package repository is disjoint from the CVS repository? Will there be a problem keeping the two synchronized? What will the package repository "release process" look like? A scheduled (or cron package) or a manual task?

http://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1103 is filed under ACS Admin.

Wow! Looks like .LRN and 5.0 bugs are _really_ pouring in...

Once again I have to say that the stuff Lars & Co. have added to 5.0 is _awesome_! Thanks guys (and gals)! Stand up and take a bow!

I know there are lots of other contributors, but I keep bumping into Lars.

5: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 4)

Posted by Lars Pind on 11/07/03 12:41 PM

It should be built by a cron job.

For released stuff, it only needs to be built once the release is ... released.

For HEAD version, it should be rebuilt every night.

I haven't bothered too much with the code to building the repository yet, since we can always improve on that after the release is out, it's only going to sit on openacs.org.

The code to build the repository is in acs-admin/www/apm/build-repository.tcl - it's not linked from the UI, since it should generally only be run on openacs.org. If you want to host your own package repository, though, you can.

I've put up a repository for HEAD at http://openacs.org/repository/5-0/manifest.xml.

I haven't configured it to automatically rebuild, so the HEAD packages will stay current as of about 1 hour ago until we release 5.0.

/Lars

6: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 5)

Posted by Randy O'Meara on 11/08/03 01:36 AM

I see that there is a repository_url that's set in acs-admin/www/install/index.tcl that points to your server. Would it be correct to change this value to point to openacs.org like so:

http://openacs.org/repository/postgresql-5-0/

7: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 5)

Posted by Lars Pind on 11/12/03 09:23 AM

It should've been changed already in HEAD.

8: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 7)

Posted by Randy O'Meara on 11/13/03 03:12 AM

Yes. Works a treat!

9: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 1)

Posted by Walter McGinnis on 12/09/03 01:05 AM

Howdy,

A follow up question (or perhaps a bug) on the nightly build of openacs.org/repository/5-0/manifest.xql. Even though cvs.openacs.org/contrib/packages/bcms/bcms.info 1.3 states that the packages is at version .3 and HEAD is listed as one of the tags, the manifest reads .2. Looks to me like a tagging/branching issue. cvs.openacs.org/contrib/packages/bcms/bcms.info 1.2 is at .2 and it is also the branching point for oacs-5-0.

Is this correct behavior for the manifest?

10: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 9)

Posted by Randy O'Meara on 12/09/03 01:59 AM

Walter,

Lars did a "one time" build (dated above) of the repository. As far as I know, the repository is not being rebuilt, though it's probably time to set this up. I, for one, would like to use the install-from-repository feature. In fact, I do use it for quick looks at packages and then do a regular CVS co if I want to work with the package.

Lars?

Randy

11: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 10)

Posted by Lars Pind on 12/09/03 11:04 AM

Yeah.

At a minimum, we need to build the repository on every release, e.g. 5.0.0, 5.0.1, etc.

Alternatively, we can auto-build it every night, although if you're not on a release (and we don't have one yet), you shouldn't be using repository-install.

And if you are on a release, then the contents of the repository will only change when the next release.

/Lars

12: Re: Awesome 5.0 SW Install - Almost Works! (response to 11)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 12/12/03 03:13 PM

I rebuilt the repository yesterday against the openacs-5-0-0b4 tag so automated installs should work a little better now. (although the back button still messes up the checkboxes for me as well and missing dependents means you have to back and untick instead of just having the option of going forward without the packages whose dependencies are not satisfied).

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