Forum OpenACS Development: Problem w/ installing software from repository

1: Problem w/ installing software from repository

Posted by Richard Perng on 01/10/07 08:28 PM

This is a copy of a forum post from the Q&A section. Somebody told me to place this post here, but I don't know how to move it, so I just re-posted here:
https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=504970

It appears that the manifest.xml file is incorrectly formatted. I posted a comment on where the "format" broke.

Any help in resolving this issue would be great!

Thanks!

2: Re: Problem w/ installing software from repository (response to 1)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 01/15/07 04:21 AM

The problem should be fixed by now. The repository and manifest builder on openacs.org lead to an error due to an overlong list of filenames provided to tar ("argument list to long"). I have changed the code to work independently of the length of the path names and number of files.

3: Re: Problem w/ installing software from repository (response to 1)

Posted by Richard Perng on 01/15/07 04:04 PM

I just tried again. It appears that the problem is still there. I should say the symptom is still present :(

My webserver instance is going to here for the information:
https://openacs.org/repository/5-3/manifest.xml

Is there another place to get it from?

Thanks!

4: Re: Problem w/ installing software from repository (response to 3)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 01/15/07 06:48 PM

Interesting. Yesterday evening, it was ok... maybe openacs.org uses a different interface. will check again this night...

5: Re: Res: Problem w/ installing software from repository (response to 1)

Posted by Raúl Morales Hidalgo on 01/15/07 08:02 PM

acs-templating package is not finished in the xml, I have removed it in http://luther.innova.uned.es/manifest.xml and works ok

it has the download-url and provides / requires tags missing

Hope this helps

6: Re: Res: Problem w/ installing software from repository (response to 5)

Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 01/15/07 09:15 PM

The problem was not to figure out, where the XML is not valid, it was to find the reason for the problem - which was - as mentioned before the tar command rebuilding the .apm files.

Unfortunately, there are two different places, where the identical code lives, and openacs.org differs in this respect from other versions. I missed yesterday the second spot and fixed the second spot and the repository again. Let us hope, it survives this night correctly.

7: Re: Problem w/ installing software from repository (response to 1)

Posted by Richard Perng on 01/16/07 03:34 PM

as of this writing, it appears to be working.

As for the acs-templating package, it appears in the manifest.xml.

Thanks!