[Koha-devel] 2.0.0 upgrade script

[Chris Hobbs]

I understand from IRC that the upgrade script is still rough, but I wanted 
to share my experiences so far.

I'm running Perl v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi.

I had to add the line $etcdir = "/etc" to loadconfigfile() in Install.pm - I 
also added print "$variable = $value\n"; in the while lop in that function 
to confirm that the values were in fact being loaded from the config file.

However, once the script returns to koha.upgrade, $::kohaversion is not set, 
so the upgrade notice uses "unknown version" in its output.

I also get the following warnings:

Name "main::hostname" used only once: possible typo at ./koha.upgrade line 111.
Name "main::pass" used only once: possible typo at ./koha.upgrade line 111.
Name "main::language" used only once: possible typo at ./koha.upgrade line 7.
Name "main::database" used only once: possible typo at ./koha.upgrade line 111.
Name "main::user" used only once: possible typo at ./koha.upgrade line 111.

These imply to me that $:: is not actually getting set with the values from 
loadconfigfile(). I'm not a stranger to Perl, but I don't recall seeing the 
$:: notation before, so I'm not sure where to look for a solution to this.

Thanks for your help,

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cgh