[Koha-devel] Problem with upgrading and specify backup directory

[Paul POULAIN]

Klaus Weidenbach a écrit :

>Heihei,
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>
Hello from Euroland,

>>Are you sure you run the updater as a user with enough permissions ?
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>Well, I was first user klaus and I have permissions to write in the directory 
>I gave under "Please specify a directory to store the backup in", but the 
>updater didn't took that directory, but always wanted to write in the default 
>location: [/usr/local/backups] where I had no rights. I have then tried as 
>root and then it worked, but it wrote the backup in /usr/local/backups and 
>not in the folder I gave.
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Yes, there was a bug [1]

>Oh, the messages "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
>Install.pm line 2117, <STDIN> line 5." were another problem, because I have 
>my koha config not in /etc, but I changed a line in the updater script and 
>then this message disasspeared. Is it possible to add a command line 
>parameter for the updater where I can give the path to the config file? 
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Export KOHA_CONF=/path/to/koha.conf before doing anything
;-)

>>what happends if you add just after :
>>my $answer =
>>showmessage(getmessage('BackupDir',[$backupdir]),'free',$backupdir);
>>(in line 2089)
>>$backupdir = $answer;
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>Yes, that fixed this problem! ;))
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[1] and this hack fixes it ;-)

I modify Install.pm immedialty !

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Paul POULAIN
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