[Koha-bugs] [Bug 13216] fix koha-shell to work with git/dev installs

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13216

--- Comment #8 from Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com> ---
(In reply to Mason James from comment #7)
> (In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #4)
> > This is an interesting change.
> > I added an see-also to a blocked bug 13971 from myself. I was not yet
> > satisfied with the solution there.
> > 
> > Instead of passing the kohadir on all individual scripts like koha-shell
> > here, koha-rebuild-zebra or even another one in the other see-also, imo we
> > would benefit from a more general approach.
> > The get_perl5lib function in koha-functions.sh would do (from 13971); we
> > should forget the other function is_gitified.
> > 
> > Instead of passing the alternative path all the time, why not once record it
> > in koha-conf.xml ? What do you think ?
> 
> just my 2 cents...  we need to know 2 things here...
> 
> 1/ what the base directory of the Koha is?
> 2/ what kind of install type the Koha is? (eg: tar, git, .deb), as the
> directory structure is difference for each type
> 
> we do need something like a is_gitified() function, that checks the
> koha-conf.xml file for some value
> 
> knowing the base directory of the Koha, and 'guessing' the install type -
> wont give us enough info to sort this problem?

specifically scripts like koha-update-schema and koha-translate will need to
know these 2 things, to work correctly with a gitified Koha; as the dir
structure is different for each type

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