Forum OpenACS Development: OpenACS 5.2 beta work and bug bash this weekend

We will joing with at least 3 developers.

I resolved all priority one bugs and brought the priority 2 bugs down to 15. Furthermore a lot of the bugs with priority 2 are not something which we'd have to fix before the next release (as Caroline duely noted).

Happy bug bashing weekend (I'll be travelling therefore I can't join).

Dave, thanks alot.

Alright,

we have set up a test server on:

madura.bwl.uni-mannheim.de

SuSE 9.2, AOLServer 4.0.10, PostgreSQL 4.7.4 and Oracle 9i (soon)

Several servers are installed:

oacs-5-1 on postgresb (port 9001)
oacs-5-2 on postgres (9002)

Hopefully comming soon

oacs-5-1 on oracle
oacs-5-2 on oracle

user and password can be obtained by sending an email to
mazloumi @ uni-mannheim.de or asking in IRC #openacs

Hello Nima,

You wouldn't have a set of installation instructions for the SUSE 9.2 would you? I've used Redhat and Fedora in the past, but thought I'd like to try SUSE 9.3 for my next installation...

Thanks,

Gil

Alright,

no prio 1 bugs for dotlrn left. prio 2 bugs:

69 bugs (2005:14, 2004:35, 2003:20)
11 suggestions

We need to check which of the 2003,2004 bugs are still valid.

After changing all suggestions and todos to normal prio we now have 59 bugs.

Those from 2003,2004 should be confirmed.

<h3>Upgrade oacs-5-1 to oacs-5-2</h3>

1. Checkout oacs-5-1 from cvs
2. Checkout oacs-5-2 from cvs
3. Install OpenACS from oacs-5-1
4. Backup oacs-5-1/packages to packages.bak
5. Copy oacs-5-2/packages to oacs-5-1
6. Restarting the server
7. Upgrade via Control-Panel--> Install Software --> Upgrade from Local
8. Upgrading
   
   • Kernel 5.2.0a1
     
   • API Browser 5.2.0a1
     
   • Service Contracts 5.2.0a1
     
   • Bootstrap Installer 5.2.0a1
     
   • Search 5.2.0a1
     
   • Tcl Library 5.2.0a1
     
   • Templating 5.2.0a1
     
   • ACS Reference Data 5.2.0a1
     
   • Automated Testing 5.2.0a1
     
   • Authentication 5.2.0a1
     
   • Content Repository 5.2.0a4
     
   • Developer Support 5.2.0d1
     
   • Site-Wide Administration 5.2.0a1
     
   • Mail 5.2.0a1
     
   • Reference Data - Timezone 5.2.0a1
     
   • Messaging 5.2.0a1
     
   • Documentation 5.2.0a1
     
   • Subsite 5.2.0a2
     
   • Localization 5.2.0a1
   Worked without any problems.
   

<h3>Upgrade dotlrn 2.1.3b from oacs-5-1 to oacs-5-2</h3>
1. to 7. like above

8. On the same box with several identical installations some were able
to upgrade via Control-Panel--> Install Software --> Upgrade from Local
others weren't. A messages was displayed that the installation was finished
successfully though in realitiy nothing happened.

I therefore tried the installation via Package Manager --> Install Packages

In the first case everything installs but file-storage and notifications

In the second case APM offers upgrade scripts for

• Events 0.5d3
  
• Kernel 5.2.0a1
  
• Search 5.2.0a1
  
• FAQ 5.2.0d4
  
• Forums 1.2.0d2
  
• Content Repository 5.2.0a4
  
• Reference Data - Timezone 5.2.0a1
  
• Mail 5.2.0a1
  

I didn't choose file-storage and notifications for the first round.

For some reason it tries to install events before acs-kernel, acs-admin

Events fails to install:

• upgrade-0.5d1-0.5d2.sql ok
  
• upgrade-0.5d2-0.5d3.sql ok
  

But:

   Transaction aborted: Database operation "dml" failed (exception ERROR, "ERROR:  relation "apm_package_version_attr" does not exist")
   ERROR:  relation "apm_package_version_attr" does not exist
   SQL:
               delete from apm_package_version_attr
               where version_id = '2249'

So I take a new fresh dump and install acs-admin and acs-kernel first:

both install ok.

Now I install the rest without file-storage, notifications and mail (requires tcllib):

• API Browser 5.2.0a1
  
• Automated Testing 5.2.0a1
  
• Bootstrap Installer 5.2.0a1
  
• Developer Support 5.2.0d1
  
• Events 0.5d3
  
• Mail Services Lite 1.0b2
  
• ACS Reference Data 5.2.0a1
  
• Service Contracts 5.2.0a1
  
• Templating 5.2.0a1
  
• Categories 1.1d4
  
• FAQ 5.2.0d4
  
• Forums 1.2.0d2
  
• webDAV Support 1.1b1
  
• Authentication 5.2.0a1
  
• Tcl Library 5.2.0a1
  
• Reference Data - Timezone 5.2.0a1
  
• Documentation 5.2.0a1
  
• Localization 5.2.0a1
  
• Search 5.2.0a1
  
• Content Repository 5.2.0a4
  
• Messaging 5.2.0a1
  
• Subsite 5.2.0a2
  
• News 5.2.0d3
  

Upgrade Scripts are provided for:

• Events 0.5d3
  
• Categories 1.1d4
  
• FAQ 5.2.0d4
  
• Forums 1.2.0d2
  
• Search 5.2.0a1
  
• Content Repository 5.2.0a4
  
• Reference Data - Timezone 5.2.0a1
  
• News 5.2.0d3
  

Worked.

Finally I upgrade file-storage, notifications, acs-mail-lite.

Only acs-mail-lite contains an upgrade script.

All installs alright.

Final note: Installing from Package Manager --> Install packages gets messed up. It seems that it does not
install in the correct order or doesn't source the new installed packages correctly.

Also note: YOU NEED tcllib INSTALLED otherways acs-mail-lite will bomb

Why do you need to recompile AOLserver? It just works (TM) with a

cd tcllib-1.7/
./configure -prefix=${AOLSERVER_INST_DIR}
make install

on our machines.