[Koha-devel] rebuild_zebra_idx.pl

[Mason James]

On 2007/11/13, at 8:15 AM, Joshua Ferraro wrote:

> On 11/12/07, Galen Charlton <galen.charlton at liblime.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11/12/07, Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr> wrote:
>>> i've seen a fix on rebuil_zebra_idx.pl
>>>
>>> In fact, last week I was about to remove it, as it's replaced by
>>> rebuild_zebra.pl that does much more things :
>>> 1- create zebra files *if needed* (ie : they don't exist already)
>>> 2- export datas biblio & authority (or only one)
>>> 3- run zebraidx
>>> 4- keep the export for a future use.
>>>
>>> where rebuild_zebra_idx does only the export for biblios.
>>
>> After looking at the two, I would agree that rebuild_zebra_idx is
>> redundant, but only after rebuild_zebra is tweaked so that it has an
>> option to *only* export the bibs or authorities.
> I guess from my POV, I don't know what the purpose of  
> rebuild_zebra.idx
> is. It seems like a helper script for a non-standard installation,  
> not the
> kind of utility you'd normally run. The Makefile installer should  
> be all we
> need to install the zebra components of Koha.
>
> I'm in favor of a light-weight script that does export/index of  
> records
> like we have in dev_week with update_items.pl. It's always useful to
> be able to just re-index the whole dataset. That's what I thought
> rebuild_zerba_idx.pl was the start of.
>

I think it doesnt hurt to leave rebuild_zebra_idx.pl  in the repo,  
for instructional purposes alone

perhaps put a comment in rebuild_zebra_idx.pl suggesting people look,  
and use rebuild_zebra.pl for most cases

sound ok?