by Don Baccus
OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, but may be edited
by OpenACS documentation staff.
This is a final release of OpenACS 4.6.2. This release has been subjected
to an organized test effort, but please bear in mind that we are still
in the process of developing testing tools, methodology, and scripts.
Please report bugs using our
Bug Tracker at the OpenACS website. This version
of the OpenACS Toolkit supports PostgreSQL 7.2.3 and 7.3.2, and
Oracle 8i. It will not work with Oracle 9i (support is planned for
OpenACS 4.7.)
Upgrading from OpenACS 4.6.1
OpenACS 4.6.2 includes key datamodel changes to acs-kernel and other
packages. Your first step after downloading OpenACS 4.6.2 and restarting
AOLserver should be to visit the Package Manager, click on the "install
packages" link, and select the checkbox to upgrade acs-kernel. After
acs-kernel has been upgraded, return to the "install packages" page and
select the checkboxes for all other packages you have installed that
need upgrading (they are marked "upgrade" rather than "new install") and
perform the upgrade step.
After packages have been upgraded, your installation should run without
problems.
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for
Chapter 3. Note that the Windows documentation is
not current for OpenACS 4.6.2, but an alternative is to use John
Sequeira's Oasis VM
project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting
http://[your-host]/doc. Not all pieces are updated for OpenACS 4.6.2 at
this moment.
If you're using Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition you may want
to uncomment the SQL that causes InterMedia to keep online searching
online while indexing. The feature doesn't exist in Standard Edition
and OpenACS 4.6.2 now defaults to being loadable in SE. Just grep for
'sync' to find the code.
Also be sure to read the documentation in the Site Wide Search
package's sql/oracle directory. The APM doesn't execute the SQL for
this package, in part due to the fact that some steps need to be run
as the Oracle user 'ctxsys'.
If you're using PostgreSQL be sure to read the documentation on
installing the Open FTS driver for OpenACS. It's included in the
package as a text file and is also summarized at the end of the
installation documentation in the section, 4. As with the Oracle version, there
are steps you must take manually in order to get this feature
working.
OpenMSG has organized the
OpenACS 4.6.2 testing process with test servers provided by
Hub.org. Visit the acceptance test server to
see the current status of various packages. This may not be a
permanent link. If it's not working, do a search of the OpenACS forums.
