November 2020 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

issue with plack in 20.05
by Philippe Blouin 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hola! Now getting this error running plack (well, it's not running, actually): Error while loading /inlibro/koha/rn20-test-inlibro/etc/plack.psgi: Can't load application from file "/inlibro/git/koha-rn20-test-inlibro/api/v1/app.pl": Possibly a typo in schema? *Could not find "/checkout_id_pp" in "parameters/checkout.json#/checkout_id_pp"* (parameters/checkout.json#/checkout_id_pp) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1/JSON/Validator.pm line 416. ...(at the top of a looong stack) Our branch is a bit different than pure v20.05.05, but we have no modification under /api/v1/swagger/. "checkout_id_pp" is there, as it was in 19.05, etc.. Note: the log is full of these. checkout_id_pp, checkout_id_qp, city_id_pp, etc... Any hint would be welcomed while I eep digging, Thanks! We-- Philippe Blouin, Directeur de la technologie Tél. : (833) 465-4276, poste 230 philippe.blouin(a)inLibro.com <mailto:philippe.blouin@inLibro.com> inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>

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Koha Plugin Hooks documentation
by Fridolin SOMERS 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

Hi, I've worked on : https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Plugin_Hooks Should be update with current hooks in master, and a few under development. Please update this page when developing/integrating a new hook. Best regards. -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Kohadevbox with libvirt/kvm
by Mark Alexander 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

I've just started looking at kohadevbox, and was wondering if anybody had tried to use it with (1) libvirt/kvm and (2) an existing Debian 9 VM. The situation is that the last few years, I've already been using libvirt/kvm to create a few Koha VMs for testing, and I have a Debian 9 VM ready to go for gitified development. I was hoping that perhaps I could modify the kohadevbox system just a bit to use my existing setup, so that (1) I wouldn't be forced to use Virtualbox, and (2) I wouldn't have to wait for it to download and create a new Debian 9 VM, since I already have one. Has anybody out there tried to do this? -- I'm doing my part to help preserve life on earth by trying to preserve my own. --Ashleigh Brilliant

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getmysqlhost() function not fetching / setting the hostname in koha-conf.xml
by Indranil Das Gupta 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hi devs, A followup to my earlier post https://lists.koha-community.org/pipermail/koha-devel/2020-November/046112.… I found that the function getmysqlhost() in the koha-create bash script wasn't able to set the hostname in the koha-conf.xml. My /etc/mysql/debian.cnf contains - # Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH! And /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf is symlinked to /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf I have MariaDB 10.5 installed from MariaDB repo on Debian 10. Am i missing something or is it a bug? -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg

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Time to translate: string freeze to prepare Koha 19.05.17 has begun - last 19.05.x release
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hi, saluton, hola, bonjour, String freeze is into effect as of now for the 19.05.x maintenance branch. The 19.05.17 release is scheduled for the 23th. **IMPORTANT NOTICE**: This will be the last scheduled release of the 19.05.x branch. So the last possibility to fix or add translations. There have been some wording changes to a few sysprefs description that requires to retranslate them. Translation platform: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/ Reminder: if you add or change a translation in version 19.05, then you must also copy it to 19.11 and 20.05. Otherwise your work will be lost for future versions. More info: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/User:Victor_Grousset_-_tuxayo:Translat… Happy translating, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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no backups when running koha-run-backups
by Indranil Das Gupta 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hi, The scenario - Koha 19.11.11, MariaDB 10.5 on Debian 10. The problem - no backups are being generated under the default backupdir either via cron or when running koha-run-backups manually. It exists without any output or error shown on STDOUT. Interestingly, a regular mysqldump using the koha db user and pass from koha-conf.xml works flawlessly. Anyone else facing this issue? thanks in advance -- Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies Phone : +91-98300-20971 WWW : http://www.l2c2.co.in Blog : http://blog.l2c2.co.in IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg

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String freeze for 19.11.x
by Aleisha Amohia 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Hi all, String freeze will go into effect end of on 16 November 2020 for the 19.11.x maintenance branch. 19.11.12 release scheduled for 23 November 2020. Thanks -- *Aleisha Amohia*(she/her) Koha Developer Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source Solutions Mob: +64 21 024 04004 | Tel: +64 4 499 2267 | www.catalyst.net.nz <http://www.catalyst.net.nz> Catalyst Logo CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email is intended for the named recipients only. It may contain privileged, confidential or copyright information. If you are not the named recipient, any use, reliance upon, disclosure or copying of this email or its attachments is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please reply via email or call +64 4 499 2267.

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Impossible to export config backups when using Debian packages
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Hi all, /cgi-bin/koha/tools/export.pl can be configured to allow you to "Export database" and "Export configuration". These files are typically generated by a cron running "koha-run-backups --days 2 --output /var/spool/koha". However, only the database can be exported. The configuration cannot due to permission issues. See the following terminal output: root@kohadevbox:koha(bug26791)$ ls -l /var/spool/koha/kohadev/ total 4856 -rw-r----- 1 root kohadev-koha 1001326 Nov 16 10:23 kohadev-2020-11-16.sql.gz -rw------- 1 root root 3968315 Nov 16 10:23 kohadev-2020-11-16.tar.gz I reckon that we either need to 1) fix the permissions to allow the web download, or 2) remove the web download option I thought there was a Bugzilla issue for this but I couldn't find it, so I thought that I'd email the listserv to see what people think (and if anyone knows the bug reference number). David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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Should we back up /usr/share/koha on a daily basis as well?
by Andreas Roussos 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Dear Developers, In a standard package installation, the backup tarballs taken by the `koha-common` daily cron job (which calls `koha-run-backups`, which in turn calls `koha-dump` for each Koha instance) do not include the default base directory (i.e. /usr/share/koha). Indeed, including the entire /usr/share/koha tree in every instance's backup tarball (for multi-tenant setups) would be superfluous (not to mention space-consuming). However, I think that some provision should be made so that a backup of the /usr/share/koha tree is taken on a daily basis. This could be kept at the top-level /var/spool/koha/ directory with a filename like common-YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz or shared-YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz. It should even be possible to pass the base directory path as an argument, in case it has been changed from the default. My reasoning behind this is that people often make local changes to the Koha codebase, or edit the Intranet/OPAC XSLTs, or adjust the Template Toolkit files to account for their needs. So it would be in the users' best interest to have Koha take regular backups of these files as well. Thoughts? Kind regards, Andreas

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Call for News: November 2020 Newsletter
by Koha News 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

I'm collecting news for the November newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events , **** one month back is the cut-off ****. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. NOTE: This'll be my last call for the news as editor - Michael Kuhn has accepted the role of the Newsletter Editor. Thank you Michael! Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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