[Koha-devel] Questions from the great wall of install...

[Chris Cormack]

On 16 September 2012 19:23, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As I am putting finishing touches on the Ubuntu great wall of install, for
> the purposes of *splitting* and organizing (packages/git/tarball – the
> latter of which will be hidden), I have written down questions that I
> thought perhaps the list may be able to clarify.
>
> 1) When doing a packages install, a message about upgrading from 3.2 to 3.4
> pops up. What is the recommended upgrade path from pre-3.4 to current? Is
> that message accurate?

Yes, you must run that if you are coming from pre 3.4
>
> 2) I noticed that Mime::Lite (forgive wrong capitalizations) triggers the
> install of nullmailer under a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server.
> Seeing as Koha has cronjobs that do mailing, are their any external links
> (like Vimal Kumar V.’s link to a gmail relay set up) which would be
> recommended for getting those functions to work properly? I understand that
> a “configuring mailing” wiki page is beyond the scope of Koha, but surely a
> “look here for suggested hints, but configuration of mailing is out of
> scope” page is okay?

I'd prefer it linked to a more generic best practices for configuring
and running a mail server. Something that is in no way Koha specific.
>
> 3) In the Ubuntu documentation the ordering of
> /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini is supposedly important, as “You must be
> sure you're using the XML::LibXML SAX parser, not Expat or PurePerl, both of
> which have outstanding bugs with pre-composed characters.” During a packages
> installation, I decided to look at the ini file, and found it wasn’t in the
> recommended order. Is this a problem with the packages or has this point
> become irrelevant?
>
No idea

> 4) Does the packages installation method set up apache2 correctly, or does
> AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
> Still need to be added to a configuration file and a restart issued? It’s
> not in the Debian instructions for packages.
>
Pass, take a look and see :)

> 5) In MySQL “select variables like ‘%colla%’;” and “select variables like
> ‘%char%’;” generate non-utf8 entries. Is this correct? Nothing like this is
> mentioned in the Debian instructions for packages.
>

I don't know what this question means.

Chris

> I think that’s it for now. I hope to start the splitting in the near future,
> and be done before the end of the week. I’ve got an upgrade (3.6.3 tarball
> to 3.8.5 packages) to do this weekend.
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>
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