- patches to OpenACS are always welcome, although for 5.9.0 it is quite late. but there will be a 5.9.1 anyway.
- The best way to upgrade from 5.7.0 to 5.9.0 should go via 5.8.0, applying [1] and [2].
- AMS is not required by OpenACS 5.9.*. When the mentioned upgrade script, or actually content_type__refresh_view() is failing, this means that the acs-object hierarchy is broken. There was a similar case with etp [3], maybe one needs a similar fix for ams. The right way to upgrade with etp is to upgrade to the recent version of etp in oacs-5-8, then the 5-9 upgrade will work.
- ITU Code: the error says that the postgres sql-commands are not compatible with the pg 9 version. Do you need this package, or do you have just laying it around for historical reasons?
- ams and itu-ref do not belong to the 90 packages i am trying to maintain.
- concerning page-error.tcl: this include file is called from the request-processor passing the context variables in. Do you use a modified request-processor? Or are you calling the include from different places? Then please provide the appropriate context as shown in the request-processor procs. This include file is actually a good example, where a include-contract (new feature in oacs-5-9) should be used to make the variable expectations of the include-file clear.
hope this adresses most issues.
-g
[1] https://openacs.org/xowiki/upgrade-oacs-5-8
[2] https://openacs.org/xowiki/upgrade-oacs-5-9
[3] http://fisheye.openacs.org/browse/OpenACS/openacs-4/packages/edit-this-page/sql/postgresql/upgrade/upgrade-1.9d2-1.9d3.sql?r=1.1
