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

Re: [Koha-devel] CD image request
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 18 Sep '02

18 Sep '02

emachine 2 models no go! have used redhat on them before, do not remember which network cards are i though. I wonder if it is fighting with the dsl router that is supplying dhcp on the network? ed! > Subj:Re: [Koha-devel] CD image request > Date:9/17/02 8:05:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org">pate(a)eylerfamily.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com">COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com</A> > CC:<A HREF="mailto:koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 COURYHOUSE(a)aol.com wrote: > > > i was not able to get ti to work.... didnt like the network and droped > to > > run leval one and I supose croaked > > oh well.... will play more with it when I have time. > > Ed, > could you let us know what cpu, motherboard, hard drive, and nic you have? > Have you been able to run linux on the box your testing with? > > (There's probably a bit more info that'd be helpful as well, but I'm > drawing a blank at the moment.) > > thanks, > -pate > >

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Theme and language settings.....
by Finlay Thompson 18 Sep '02

18 Sep '02

Hi everyone, Steve, Chris and I have just had a little discuss about the design of the theme and language setting process. This is the resulting proposal: There are three levels where the theme can be found: 1) on the borrowers table. Each user can set there prefered theme and language. 2) on a new workstation table. This table will store an IP address for a machine and various settings will be possible. At the moment only theme and language. Perhaps also a list of admissible themes and languages? 3) in the systempreferences table. Each script shouild have the following template selecting line: my $template = gettemplate("opac-main.tmpl", "opac"); for example where the template is opac-main.tmpl The gettemplate subroutine is in Output.pm. The individual scripts dont need to "use HTML::Template;" only Output.pm The gettemplate sub goes and looks in the above three places in the order specified. All of these settings will can be space seperated (maybe they should be comma seperated?) lists: like "sp fr en" for language. And it will search in that order. There will be no cookies! This is the first approx. If people have some special requests we can add an options hash to the gettemplate argument to control special behaiviour but I wont do that until we need it. Progress: The gettemplate routine is written! But I need to do some more stuff to get the user and IP preferences settup..... All feedback welcomed. Finlay Katipo Communications.

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From the Kaitiaki
by Pat Eyler 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

Sep 13, 2002 To the Koha community Welcome, Koha seems to be showing up in a lot more places these days. I've heard from people in the US, Ireland, Germany, India, and Panama about their desire to start using it. We've recently shown up on the South African Government's Open Source Software website. I've even seen a Koha installation in Japan. This is really cool! What's even better is that we're poised to do even more. If you've got a question, comment, or a success story, please feel free to drop me a line. 1.2 More work has gone into 1.2.3, and RC13 has just been released. We're seeing a lot of testing help from the community, and this will be key to making 1.2.3 work extremely well for everybody. 1.4 We're getting closer to a 1.3.0 release. Paul Poulain, the 1.4 release manager expects it in the next 2 weeks. What makes this 1.3/1.4 release so special? Well, on the surface, nothing seems to change... Koha should work exactly as in the 1.2 versions, but the underlying database API has been completely rewritten. Data is stored in the old, custom format and in MARC format too (MARC21 English by default, but other flavours of MARC will be supported as well. The 1.3.0 release has to be heavily tested to ensure that everything works as it did under 1.2.X. The next steps in the 1.3 series include MARC tools for librarians, MARC export and import, and many other nice features. REMEMBER : the 1.3.0 IS alpha-software Use it only for TESTING PURPOSES. You've been warned ! Documentation If you've converted from a proprietary ILS to Koha, please contact <nsr_koha(a)hotmail.com>. He's working on a migration guide to add to our existing manual. Translations Work is currently being done on some of our documentation translation tools. We're hoping to have tools and documentation ready for translators soon. Community Philanthropy Australia is this weeks news maker, see <http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/5107.html >. We've also made it onto a few more radar screens, systems from Follet.com and Epixtech.com have both been spotted checking out Koha. In breaking news, Steve Tonnesen has worked a bit more Koha magic. This week he's released a demo CD for Koha. This CD will allow a user to run a sample Koha installation on any Win32 systems that will boot from a CD. What a great way to spread the word. An ISO image (suitable for burning CDs) is available at: <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16466>. Koha has been invited to participate in the Think-Linux show in Columbus, Ohio (in the US). We're not sure yet whether this is logisticly possible for us. If you're interested in making our appearance at this show a reality, or in seeing Koha at a local conference, User Group meeting, or similar event, please let me know. While the pace of Koha acceptance and development seem to be picking up, we're still a very friendly place for newcomers. If you're new to Koha, please stop by the mailing list and introduce yourself. happy hacking, Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager the Koha project

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[Bug 96] Various installer.pl fixes
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96 tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Additional Comments From tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca 2002-09-18 16:06 ------- 9 out of 10 hunks failed to apply The patch was generated against the installer.pl in the trunk of the CVS. I'll try to merge the changes manually tomorrow against the installer.pl in the rel-1-2 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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[Bug 97] Various buildrelease patches
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97 tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Additional Comments From tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca 2002-09-18 15:58 ------- Applied patch to buildrelease in CVS rel-1-2 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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[Bug 97] Various buildrelease patches
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97 ------- Additional Comments From a.c.li(a)ieee.org 2002-09-18 15:41 ------- Actually, should we use *root*'s home directory (for .kohaautobuild.conf)? Or should we get the current user's home directory instead? ------- 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 98] New: Portability problem with field names
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98 Summary: Portability problem with field names Product: Koha Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: Database AssignedTo: chris(a)katipo.co.nz ReportedBy: a.c.li(a)ieee.org QAContact: koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net In old MySQL versions (e.g., 3.21.29), SQL keywords cannot be used for field names. If Koha is installed on such old systems, the installation can also fail due to the addition reason that the "index_priv" privilege does not exist. During installation, my installer.pl reports [...] CREATING DATABASE ================= Database "Koha" created. ERROR 1064 at line 749: parse error near 'datetime datetime DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' NOT NULL, branch varchar(4), ' at line 2 ERROR 1054 at line 1: Unknown column 'index_priv' in 'field list' ------- 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 97] Various buildrelease patches
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97 ------- Additional Comments From a.c.li(a)ieee.org 2002-09-18 15:10 ------- Created an attachment (id=9) Propose patch ------- 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 97] New: Various buildrelease patches
by bugzilla-daemon＠wilbur.katipo.co.nz 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97 Summary: Various buildrelease patches Product: Koha Version: CVS Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: Installation AssignedTo: tonnesen(a)cmsd.bc.ca ReportedBy: a.c.li(a)ieee.org QAContact: koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net (1) Guess the location of koha-html in a hopefully more sensible way (2) Use getpwuid() to figure where root's home directory is; traditionally /root is usually not right (3) Check for the return code of chdir calls (4) Removed compilation warning messages (replaced \RC with explicit use of concatenation operator) (5) The questions about tagging and updates could be quite confusing to the new user (of buildrelease); I tried to reword a couple of sentences a bit, and rearranged their orders a bit, to reduce the likelihood of getting confused. Needless questions need not be asked (confirming whether to tag when the user says he/she doesn't want to tag). (6) Don't say it is tagging the CVS files when it is not. Because I don't want to try to tag, I am not sure whether the updated script still acts right when tagging should be done. Someone with tagging rights should probably test the code. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact.

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Re: [Koha-devel] CD image request
by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com 17 Sep '02

17 Sep '02

i was not able to get ti to work.... didnt like the network and droped to run leval one and I supose croaked oh well.... will play more with it when I have time. any advise or pre disposed config the cd is looking for would be nice to know ed sharpe archivist for smecc > Subj:[Koha-devel] CD image request > Date:9/17/02 6:42:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:pate@eylerfamily.org">pate(a)eylerfamily.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">koha-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net</A> > Sent from the Internet > > > > Hello, > Steve Tonnesen recently announced his Koha demo CD image. According to > Sourceforge, there have been several downloads of it. If you've > downloaded a copy, and haven't sent Steve any feedback, please let us know > how things are working out with it. > > I'm planning on sending out a Press Release about it soon, and Steve and I > would like to get some more feedback on the image before we open it up to > a wider audience. > > thanks, > -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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