February 2004 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Next release
by paul POULAIN 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Hi, I will speak of the next releases. My opinion, as 2.0.0 release manager is that the next release should be called 2.0.0, without anything else. It's used in 6 libraries in France, and some others around the world. It's not perfect, but everything works. The DB has not been modified (except for indexes) since a long time. That proves, imho, that Koha 2.0.0 is stable. Except for z3950 client. But i've a customer that pays me to install Koha with a working z3950 client, so i'll work on it until it works fine (hoping it won't need 2 years :-D ) What's next ??? A lot of features are asked, here in France. Some of them may/should have funders in the next few months. Some of them require only a few hours (like the bookshelf improvement i've commited today : done yesterday in the TGV between Paris & Lyon). The french mailing list is quite active since 2 weeks : users ask for improvements. I'll write a summary of their needs next week, probably. I'll put an english version on the wiki. So, what should we put in 2.0.0 and what in 2.2.0 (HEAD branch of CVS) My opinion is : * bugfixes are put in rel_2_0 cvs branch. New releases occurs when an important bugfix is done, or some minors. * Any new translation (chinese, german, spanish...) can be put in 2.0.0. A new release occurs when a new translation is published. * everything new is put in HEAD. * CODE cleaning is done in HEAD, to avoid side effect on buggy clean. I'll begin to clean some things soon i think. BUT : * MINOR improvement, that don't need DB changes, or a really minor one, *can* be backported to rel_2_0 if the 2.0.0 maintainer want to do it. * MAJOR improvements are done in HEAD, for 2.1.x unstable and 2.2.x stable. WHO-DO-WHAT. We have a useless 2.0.0 Release Manager, as the 2.0.0 is stable. We need : * a 2.0.0 Release Maintainer * a 2.2.0 Release Manager. I don't apply as Release Maintainer. Do we have a volunteer around ? I apply as Release Manager for 2.2.0 if other ppl here like this idea. -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)

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another problem installing koha with buidrelease tarball
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

HI, Thank you guys for the help about the mysql problem I mentioned the other day. In fact it was the 'delete from db' and delete from user' issue. Now, I need to know what is going on here: ./misc/buildrelease [I answer questions] a tarball is created in /tmp/. I do a fresh installation of Koha. Everything works but the aqciusition module. I get this in the logs: [Fri Feb 20 11:20:25 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: acqui-home.pl, referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl [Fri Feb 20 11:20:25 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Global symbol "$query" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Catalogue.pm line 114., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl [Fri Feb 20 11:20:25 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Global symbol "$query" requires explicit package name at /usr/local/koha/intranet/modules/C4/Catalogue.pm line 115., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl [Fri Feb 20 11:20:25 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/acqui/acqui-home.pl line 10., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl [Fri Feb 20 11:20:25 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/acqui/acqui-home.pl line 10., referer: http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl The problem did not occur when I first installed koha from the tarball realeased in the sourceforge, by the mantainer. What could be wrong? thanks. Benedict

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reinstalling koha with same error DB
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

What is this? I did the following: mysql -u root -p mysql After password I was dropped into mysql database. drop database Koha; successfull. DELETE from user WHERE User='kohaadmin'; successful. SELECT * from user; It shows there is no kohaadmin user in it. Now the error below, what can it be? thanks for any hints. CREATING DATABASE Creating the MySQL database for Koha... 0ERROR 1062 at line 1: Duplicate entry '%-Koha-kohaadmin' for key 1 connected to your DB. Checking & modifying it Adding marc_word table... Adding marc_biblio table... Adding bookshelf table...

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New intranet template
by Owen Leonard 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

I've just committed to CVS a copy of the custom template that I put together for the Nelsonville Public Library. All pages should be valid XHTML, with CSS-positioning. Users of older browsers like Netscape 4 will see unstyled content. I tried to eliminate all NPL-specific things, but I may have missed a few. Terminology will often be different from the default template, and some links may be missing if they're to functions we don't use. Comments or bug reports are welcome. I'll try to get our OPAC templates posted soon as well. -- Owen ---- Nelsonville Public Library http://www.athenscounty.lib.oh.us

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Barcode and confusion
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi group, Acquisition module is so criptic to me... When using simple aquisition module I cannot make the barcode feature to work as expected (v 2.0.0RC4). After filling out fields in MARC biblio I am presented with a screen where there's "Add Item" button. A files marked as "p barcode" is shown. Once filled with a value, say 9788370120122, the book cannot be found by this barcode from the catalog search page. I found out the the book received barcode number "1". Why? Benedict

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webring
by MJ Ray 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

I'd like to make a small webring of koha developer's sites. I'm more interested in personal sites than company ones. This is so that I can find out what other developers do, partly to learn. I've started a page at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/rings/koha-people-info.html and linked mine and pate's sites to it (hope that's OK). Please email me off-list to add to it. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Lost database connection during z3950 searches.
by T & J Kotula 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Hi, I just downloaded koha2RC4, but unfortunately it is still buggy (actually unusable) when running z3950 searches. When an ISBN is typed in and "z3950 search" executed, the processz3950queue.pl script successfully queries LOC but then looses database connection and reports MySQL server has gone away at ... Unfortunately I never programmed in PERL, (but got myself a good PERL book) and tried finding out what's going on. I know now exactly when and why it fails but I'm unable to fix it :-( Here is what's happening... 1. Once "z3950 search" is clicked, the processz3950queue.pl forks. The child correctly looks up LOC and does its thing. However once it 'exits' on line 314, the data base connection is lost in the parent process as well, hence I get errors on lines 136, 139 etc after it prints 'starting loop'. To prove this I delayed the 'exit' by 20 seconds and during this time the parent ran quite happily. 2. On line 182, the child process tries to get a new database handle, but C4::Context->dbh, according to its documentation, will not work at it simply returns an existing handle because a connection has already been made, right at the start of the script. 3. I though bingo, replaced Context->dbh with ->new_dbh and expected it to work, but sadly it failed the same way. 4. According to my very limited understanding, the child process must establish a new connection to the database, so when it exits only this connection will be lost and not the parent's one. I'm running RH8. Hoping that someone will know how to fix it. Thanks tomasz kotula.

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where to set sitewide character encoding?
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi, I was wondering where to set sitewide character encoding for the Polish language. In the httpd.conf or in a file of koha distro? Is there such single file? Say, I translate opac.pl using kate and utf-8... Then I update the directories with ./tmpl_process. I can't enjoy utf-8 because koha defaults to iso-8859-1. Paul, how did you menage to set it in the French language? French uses iso-8859-2. Benedict

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Re: Koha "users guide"
by Pat Eyler 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Auvo Finne wrote: > Hi again, Hi Auvo, I'm cc:ing the koha-devel list. > > We have earlier been in touch concerning our Koha installation in Iringa/Tanzania. > The system is now running and under testing. We could avoid misuse and mistakes > if we had some kind of user's guide. Does any guides exist? If there are several versions, > where could we find the latest/best one? > There is a users guide, it is currently being updated to better reflect 2.0.0 ... I don't remember which version you've installed. -pate > Auvo Finne >

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2.0.0RC4, text-extract2
by Benedykt P. Barszcz 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi Group, Here is what I get when I install a fresh copy of koha, latest. Creating the MySQL database for Koha... ERROR 1062 at line 1: Duplicate entry 'localhost-kohaadmin' for key 1 256ERROR 1062 at line 1: Duplicate entry '%-Koha-kohaadmin' for key 1 I had RC3 before, but i did: - remove hte user kohaadmin (delete from user where user='kohaadmin'; flush privileges; - deleted /usr/local/koha dir - drop database Koha; - delete /etc/koha.conf I wonder what I missed. Now, text-extract2 is working well. But I get these and more: [root@localhost translator]# ./tmpl_process.pl update -i /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/default/en -s opac.pl -r Generating list of files to process... Restoring string list from opac.pl... Processing /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/default/en/kohaerror.tmpl... Processing /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/default/en/opac-account.tmpl... Warning (negligible): Suggest ESCAPE=URL for TMPL_VAR in attribute "background" near line 9: "/images/background-opac.gif" Warning (negligible): Further similar negligible warnings will not be reported, use --pedantic for details Processing /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/default/en/opac-auth.tmpl... Warning (negligible): Suggest ESCAPE=URL for TMPL_VAR in attribute "action" near line 27: "" Warning (negligible): Further similar negligible warnings will not be reported, use --pedantic for details Processing /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/default/en/opac-detail.tmpl... Warning (negligible): Suggest ESCAPE=URL for TMPL_VAR in attribute "href" near line 21: "/cgi-bin/koha/opac-searchresults.pl?isbn=" Warning (negligible): Further similar negligible warnings will not be reported, use --pedantic for details Processing /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/default/en/opac-main.tmpl... Warning (negligible): Suggest ESCAPE=URL for TMPL_VAR in attribute "background" near line 62: "/images/front-background-med.gif" Warning (negligible): Further similar negligible warnings will not be reported, use --pedantic for details Warning (negligible): Unquoted attribute contains character(s) that should be quoted near line 116: /cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl Any hits? Especially for the mysql part? Thanks. Benedict

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