Some CPAN modules Koha needs in Debian now
This might be a nice small bit of good news to start the week. Debian squeeze has most of the CPAN modules Koha needs, but five were missing. I made packages for them and got them uploaded into Debian. They last of them has just this weekend gotten through the NEW queue, which is where new Debian packages wait for the Debian ftp-master to check them. Right now, all five packages are only in Debian unstable (a.k.a. sid), but if there are no bugs found, they should land in Debian squeeze in about ten days, I hope. If you wish, you can check their current status in Debian via the following page: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lars% 40catalyst.net.nz&comaint=yes When it lists a version for "Testing", then the package is in squeeze (squeeze being the current development/testing version of Debian). There is a reasonable chance that Koha will install and work on Debian squeeze out of the box, without any additional software to be installed. Note that I do not yet know if everything required to actually run all parts of Koha are there yet, but Koha does pass the automatic test suite with these packages installed.
Lars Wirzenius writes
This might be a nice small bit of good news to start the week.
It's not good news. It's excellent news.
Debian squeeze has most of the CPAN modules Koha needs, but five were missing.
In my last attempt to install koha 3.00.04_fixed, http::OAI was the only one missing. But I did not install zebra.
There is a reasonable chance that Koha will install and work on Debian squeeze out of the box, without any additional software to be installed.
So that means we may be seeing a koha...deb at some stage? I think all you would have to figure out is how configure the database setup with debconf or so. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 05:58 +0200, Thomas Krichel wrote:
So that means we may be seeing a koha...deb at some stage?
Yes indeed. I am slowly working on a Debian package for Koha itself as well, but that is going to take a bit, since I need to learn a lot about Koha, the technologies it uses, and the whole, wacky world of libraries first.
On Ubuntu Lucid everything but HTTP::OAI and MARC::Crosswalk::DublinCore is available in the universe repository. Even idzebra. I've made a list for documenting it. aptitude install libalgorithm-checkdigits-perl libbiblio-endnotestyle-perl libcgi-session-perl \ libcgi-session-serialize-yaml-perl libclass-factory-util-perl libdata-ical-perl libdate-manip-perl \ libdate-ical-perl libdate-calc-perl libemail-date-perl libgd-gd2-perl libgd-barcode-perl \ libhtml-template-pro-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl liblingua-stem-perl \ libmarc-charset-perl libmarc-perl libmarc-record-perl libmarc-xml-perl libdublincore-record-perl \ libmime-lite-perl libnet-ldap-perl libnet-z3950-zoom-perl libpdf-reuse-perl libpdf-reuse-barcode-perl \ libpoe-perl libsms-send-perl libschedule-at-perl libtext-csv-perl libtext-csv-xs-perl libxml-dumper-perl \ libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-rss-perl libxml-sax-writer-perl libyaml-perl libyaml-syck-perl idzebra-2.0 libyaz3 Looks promising. To+
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