In the process of trying to get the attendance package to run,
http://www.openacs.org/forums/message-view?message%5fid=397909I was introduced to the cvs "HEAD", I think...
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:mailto:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot co openacs-4/packages/{package-name}
Kind developers directed me to use cvs commands to download packages:
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:mailto:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot co openacs-4/packages/attendance
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:mailto:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot co openacs-4/packages/dotlrn-attendance
With those two package installed the attendance package(s) loaded but upon
use proceeded to give server errors. After looking at the error, it lead me
to believe that ecommerce needed to be installed. When attempting to install
ecommerce, the dependencies continued to build until eventually it was necessary
to install acs-content-repository 5.2.0d7; acs-kernel 5.2.0d7, which apparently
are a different version from the dotLRN tarball, 2.1.3.
It seems apparent that one cannot just wander through the repository and just
start installing what ever suits their fancy, which I tried. :)
I was able to successfully corrupt my system to the point of needing a wipe
and rebuild. This is more than fine because I am still in the research phase.
Also, of course, I could restore it had I actually backed it up ahead of time. :)
So here's the question... is there some sort of offical dependency tree? While
trial and error is entertaining it can be rather time consuming.
Thanks,
-al