[Koha-devel] Update database changes proposal [IMPORTANT]

[Ian Walls]

Another way to say it:

No patches will be accepted with edits to the YAML file.

also

If you edit your local copy of the YAML file, do not assign a number; use
localchange instead.  Otherwise you will encounter problems.


-Ian

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>wrote:

> Le 05/11/2011 08:32, Julian Maurice a écrit :
> > It seems to be a great evolution, but there is something which I think I
> > don't understand:
> >> * there won't be any conflict anymore of a patch applied and your .XXXX
> >> file not applying anymore, needing a rebase
> > Ok there will be no more conflicts in the updatedatabase.pl file, but
> > what about the YAML file? It still the same problem. If you have
> > versions 001 and 002, and you add a localversion after them, and then a
> > new version 003 is pushed into master. If you try to apply the patch,
> > there will be a conflit, isn't it?
> >
> The idea is that only the RM will take care of the YAML file.
>
> If you want to submit a DB change, just create a file in atomicupdate
> directory.
> If you want to test a patch, just check if there is something about
> atomicupdate in the patch, and if yes, run "atomicupdate/blabla.pl"
> before testing => no possible conflict here (except if 2 ppl use the
> same name for the file, that's pretty impossible)
> If you have a patch that must be applied to your customer before it is
> pushed in Koha :
>  - apply atomicupdate/blabla.pl
>  - add "localchange blabla.pl" at the end of your YAML file = it will
> keep track of when you've added the change, once the patch is in Koha,
> check the diff just of the YAML file, to know what has been applied and
> what should be applied. Much much easier than what we have today !
>
> In case there is a conflict because of a local change, the conflict will
> be only on the YAML file, and will be very easy to deal with, as each
> entry is just one line.
>
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