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

String Freeze Notice
by Joy Nelson 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze will go into effect at the end of day 12/16/2019 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 23rd. Translations can begin on the 17th. Thanks! -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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update MARC::Transform in debian.koha-community.org
by Stéphane Delaune 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Hello, I'm Stéphane Delaune (aka reiveune) from BibLibre I am the developer of the Perl module MARC::Transform ( https://metacpan.org/pod/MARC::Transform ), this module is in version 0.003008 since april but, in debian.koha-community.org, the version is only 0.003006 that is 5 years old (2 versions late, including a bugfix) I would like to know if someone is able to update this package in debian.koha-community.org (and in https://packages.qa.debian.org/libm/libmarc-transform-perl.html on which the version is 0.003007) thank you in advance Stéphane Delaune

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Build the easy way throws error
by M.Wahls 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

hi folks, I'm new to: koha, this community and the debian-build process I'm familiar with: linux (archlinux), software development I'm struggling while building the koha package. And get the following errors (here are the last few lines the build-script throws): make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982' fakeroot debian/rules binary dh binary --fail-missing --with bash-completion dh_testroot -O--fail-missing dh_prep -O--fail-missing dh_installdirs -O--fail-missing /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: 1: /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: etc/koha/sites: not found /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: 2: /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: var/cache/koha: not found /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: 3: /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: var/lib/koha: not found /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: 4: /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: var/log/koha: not found /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: 5: /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: var/lock/koha: not found /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: 6: /tmp/buildd/koha-19.05.09+20200110003754.96ab4982/debian/koha-common.dirs: var/spool/koha: not found dh_installdirs: problem reading debian/koha-common.dirs: debian/rules:9: recipe for target 'binary' failed make: *** [binary] Error 127 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 E: Failed autobuilding of package I: unmounting dev/pts filesystem I: unmounting run/shm filesystem I: unmounting proc filesystem I: cleaning the build env I: removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//1505 and its subdirectories Don't know if it's problematic but following the build output there are a lot fail-missings: dh_auto_build dh_auto_clean dh_auto_configure dh_auto_test dh_binary dh_build dh_clean dh_installdirs dh_prep dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_update_autotools_config changing the compatability-level of pbuilder wasn't helpful. My VirtualBox looks like this: 4GB Ram, variable filesystem size (max 32GB). Debian 8 (Jessie) is used (but Stretch has the exact same issues). Used the default installation from Debian, but XFCE as desktop environment. These packages where installed by myself: git, libmodern-perl-perl, pbuilder, dh-make, gnupg2, devscripts, dput, build-essential, module-assistant As root: m-a prepare; mount /usr/lib/virtualbox/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run adduser marco vboxsfsu mounting host partition under /media/sf_Share as root: pbuilder create --distribution jessie ...and as root (like in the tutorial for building packages the easy way): pbuilder --login --save-after-login echo "deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list apt-get install wget gnupg2 wget -O- http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/gpg.asc | apt-key add - apt-get update exit checkout koha: cd /media/sf_Share (mounted host-partition) git clone git://git.koha-community.org/koha.git git checkout -b 19.05.x origin/19.05.x cd /media/sf_Share cp -rf koha koha-build cd /media/sf_Share/koha-build as root: /media/sf_Share/koha-build/debian/build-git-snapshot -v 19.05.09 -d Thats all i did. What am i doing wrong? Any ideas or more information needed? Best wishes Marco

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Koha Community Newsletter: February 2020
by kohanews 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

The Koha Community Newsletter for February 2020 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-february-2020/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Give a try to RabbitMQ (background jobs rewrite) - POC!
by Jonathan Druart 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hi devs, I have submited a proof of concept (POC) on bug 22417 (Delegate background jobs execution). The idea would be to isolate our background jobs code (the one in the .pl) into module then use RabbitMQ to process them. More stuffs on the bug! https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22417 Cheers, Jonathan

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Koha 19.11.03 Release
by Joy Nelson 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Greetings! The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.03. This is a maintenance release containing 7 enhancements and 78 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-03-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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Minimal docker images for Koha
by Julian Maurice 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi all, I've been playing with docker lately, and I tried to build a minimal docker image for Koha. Here are the results. My goals were: * Install only required "things" to get Koha up and running, and nothing else (no testing or dev tools), * No external dependencies except CPAN * Follow Docker best practices as much as possible The resulting images are here: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/julianmaurice/koha and the Dockerfiles are here: https://github.com/jajm/koha-docker A few things worth mentioning: * I tried to build the smallest image possible by using alpine or perl slim images at first but it was not that great, because the perl version shipped with those images is missing some libs, which cause MARC::Charset to build a database of several hundreds MBs (which is only 5MBs with a standard perl version). So I chose a more standard image (debian:buster) as base. * Koha doesn't work well when running with a perl version different than the system perl installed in /usr/bin/perl. For example, the updatedatabase doesn't work when called from the web installer. This is because Perl scripts are called directly as executable files, and shebangs contain '/usr/bin/perl'. Same problem from misc/translator/translate which calls tmpl_process3.pl. * I tried to make the Koha installation as self-contained as possible. Almost everything is installed as a non-root user in /home/koha, including Perl dependencies. * It doesn't need a reverse proxy such as apache or nginx. The necessary URL rewriting is handled in PSGI file. The container expose two ports, one for intranet, the other one for OPAC. * Each Perl dependency is installed in its latest version, so expect things to break. I can only confirm that the webinstaller, basic cataloguing and search/indexation work. I did not test anything else. * There are docker-compose.yml files in the github repository to get Koha running quickly with mariadb, memcached and elasticsearch. * Zebra is not installed * Images weigh ~1.15GB uncompressed (koha sources included) If you made it this far, thanks for reading :) And if you want to use these docker images, you should start by reading https://github.com/jajm/koha-docker/blob/master/README.md -- Julian Maurice BibLibre

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Problems when using multiple CGI objects in a CGI script
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi all, Just thought I'd share an issue I encountered today. You can see the details at https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24719, but it boils down to how using multiple CGI objects (using the CGI module) can lead to unexpected behaviour. In this case, file uploads were failing in /cgi-bin/koha/tools/stage-marc-import.pl because the CGI object created in a different function in the included C4::Auth was setting and clearing global variables behind the scenes just by calling CGI->new(). Just sharing this I suppose so that we're careful with our use of the CGI module? David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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Looking for QA availability to pass 11299
by Philippe Blouin 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Good morning/dinner/evening dear Koha developpers, We're looking for a QA to pass 11299. Jonathan and Cate have removed themselves, and the patch is big and has been rebased already too many times in its 7 years history. This has been by far the costliest development for our sponsor, CCSR/Collecto, that has already given much to the community over 10 years. Bouzid has played by the rules, and has put in every single damn request presented to him by QA/Testers. Including redoing it from ground up lately to match the ever changing coding requirements and architecture. So, anyone has some time? Regards, -- 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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About SMS integration with KOHA 19.11 from Bangladesh.
by Sarowar Saklayan 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Dear Sir, We are here trying to integrate SMS API with KOHA but failed. If there any suggestions for us or any alternative option. Please let us know. -- Regards Md. Sarowar Saklayan CRO & System Analyst Dhaka | Rajshahi | Chattogram | Kolkata | Pennsylvania Cell phone:+8801913800800, +8801729018635 Fax: +880 721 774373, E-mail: saklayan18(a)gmail.com Web: DesktopIT.com.bd <http://desktopit.com.bd/> | WebRajshahi.com | KhazaCorporation.com IM - "01729018635" (Skype & whatsApp)

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