December 2002 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

library codes, installer.pl in CVS
by Ambrose Li 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hi, I am working on fixing the installer.pl. I know the problems will be fixed when the 1.2.x installer is "forward-ported" to 1.3 and/or when templating is done etc. But I don't think these will be finished very soon. In the meantime IMHO the installer should at least work in case someone wants to try 1.3.x (and perhaps help to write some code). While I am working on fixing installer.pl, I came across something I don't understand. When I am asked to create a 4-letter code for the library, it really wants a 4-letter code, and will delete any non-letters. I didn't know and entered a numeric code, and got an empty library code added to the database. Is this correct behaviour? (Reason for asking: If this is correct behaviour then the installer should double-check the library code in case it becomes empty or just one letter, etc.; if this is not correct the regexp in substitution should be corrected.) -- Ambrose Li <a.c.li(a)ieee.org> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/cmcc/ http://www.cccgt.org/ DRM is theft - We are the stakeholders

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profiling Koha
by Pat Eyler 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

The newest release of the DBI module includes several DBI profiling tools: DBI::Profile, DBI::ProfileDumper, and dbiprof especially. As Paul (and everyone else who's now happily working on 1.3 stuff, right?) march towards a 2.0 release, it might make sense to start playing with these tools so that we can do a round or two of profiling and tuning before we release 2.0.0. Chris, does it make sense to look at this for the 1.2 series as well? While 2.0 should be out within the next ~60 days, I'm guessing that 1.2 will remain in production for a while. -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org

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Re: [Koha-devel] full text search
by paul POULAIN 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Larry Currie a écrit: >Hi Paul, > >Full text searching in Koha would definitely be a big plus. > >Larry Currie >California Academy of Sciences > > Here is one other opinion. Everybody agrees on the interest of this feature. I'm not suprised :-) But the question is : if the cost is to become db-dependant, is it affordable ? It seems ppl here think it is, for instance. So if ppl want to tell us why they think it should not be done, please explain here. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)

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Re: [Koha-devel] full text search
by paul POULAIN 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Anthony W. Youngman a écrit: > Think Pick. > > I don't know whether MySQL can do it, but can you create a virtual > column containing all consecutive character strings, and index on > that? Your free text search would need to search on whole words in > that case, but the result would be very fast, and *should* be database > independent. > That's what we planned to do in 2,0 version, and the db is organised to do this. But it will complicate a lot the search api and i'm not sure we could do as fast as mysql succedeed to do internally ? So the question is still open... any other opinion anyone ? -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)

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[Bug 149] Installation fails if the MySQL root password is not set
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149 ------- Additional Comments From a.c.li(a)ieee.org 2002-12-09 19:06 ------- Mysql's -p option accepts an equal sign. When the equal sign is supplied, Mysql always assumes that a password is supplied, even if there is nothing after the equal sign. i.e., -p means read password from the tty, but -p= means using empty password. Offering to set a root password would be helpful (to help increase the security of the site), but we should be able to prevent the installation failure by changing all the -p\"$::mysqlpass_quoted\" to -p=\"$::mysqlpass_quoted\". ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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[Bug 149] New: Installation fails if the MySQL root password is not set
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149 Summary: Installation fails if the MySQL root password is not set Product: Koha Version: 1.2.3 Platform: PC OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Installation AssignedTo: tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca ReportedBy: tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca QAContact: koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Should maybe offer to set a root password during installation? ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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Added some comments about Reserves2
by Finlay Thompson 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

I have added some comments about the Reserves2.pm modules This includes a proposed a new OO API. I would welcome any comments on that. There is also some redesign of the db that goes with it, which Ill add later. Finlay

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oops I forgot the wiki link
by Finlay Thompson 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Sorry, I forgot to put the url in: http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/wiki/index.php?page=ModuleList Finlay

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latest cvs
by Ambrose Li 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hi, stupid question. Has anyone tried the latest CVS and noticed anything unusual? The intranet module seems to have stopped working; the home page is giving me a member login screen. I don't know if it's me, or it's the Koha in CVS. Anyone can confirm this? -- Ambrose Li <a.c.li(a)ieee.org> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/cmcc/ http://www.cccgt.org/ DRM is theft - We are the stakeholders

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[Bug 146] $::realhttpdconf does not get initialized if installer.pl can't find it itself
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146 ------- Additional Comments From tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca 2002-12-09 05:53 ------- I fixed this bug a couple of days ago in rel-1-2. Since the progress of the safe-installer seems to be slowed, I'm going to propose that I merge the rel-1-2 installer into the 1.3 branch. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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