On 12/03/20 12:43 am, Mason James wrote:
On 10/03/20 8:08 pm, Mason James wrote:
Hi Koha devs
We have a dependency problem with the release of debian-10 and the following packages. (debian-11 is ok)
libmojolicious-perl libmojolicious-plugin-openapi-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl Two other options... 1/ use kc.org debian packages, with cpanminus (or similar) providing the distro specific packages (extra installation steps and complexity) 2/ ignore the problem for now, and accept that older koha/distro combinations will be forced to break some other points i didnt mention...
koha on buster has a security bug. the solution requires some packages to be updated
i can push the packages to the koha repo to fix this problem, but... (there's always a but) the new packages will break jessie :/ when jessie-lts support officially finishes on 30th june 2020, i can happily push these packages - but between now and 30th june we need to decide on a fix for the security bug on buster https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
some other options... 3/ do nothing and tell people to not use buster, until june 4/ provide buster packages in an separate repo, until june 5/ provide instructions to add buster packages using cpanm, until june 6/ update koha repo to fix buster, and provide jessie packages in an separate repo 7/ update koha repo to fix buster, and provide instructions to add jessie packages using cpanm 8/ submit required buster packages to debian buster-backports repo (not sure how difficult this is)
i prefer option 4/, as its the least disruptive for users, and only requires an extra sources.list line to implement
also... i think we should hold off on redesigning the koha apt repository until *after* this buster security issue is fixed
cheers, Mason
hmm, i had forgotten another... its possible to tell apt to prefer koha's older mojo v7 package, rather than the newer debian/buster mojo v8 package running the following command before 'apt install koha-common' makes it possible to run the various koha releases on debian 10 $ sudo cat << EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/koha-1001 Package: libjson-validator-perl Pin-Priority: 1001 Pin: release o=Koha Package: libmojolicious-perl Pin-Priority: 1001 Pin: release o=Koha EOF for me, this option is probably the easiest workaround for koha on debian 10 if nobody objects? - i am happy to update the koha wiki with this workaround cheers, Mason