[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Upgrade and install questions

[Wiktor Rzeczkowski]

Sorry, I missed this message and could not provide this clarification 
earlier.

The ejabberd problem was originally discovered in Feodra 9 and was 
predicted to appear in new versions of Linux distributions, including in
Ubuntu. The problem was reported in April here (beginning of the thread):

http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-April/004505.html

Solutions for the problem, i.e. having ejabberd at most at v. 2.0.2 or 
having OpenSRF fixed, were reported here (end of the thread):

http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-April/004508.html


The ejabberd problem re-appeared on the list in July when installation of 
Evergreen was attempted on Ubuntu 9 and failed. The beginning of the new 
thread (solutions from the April posting did apply) is here:

http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-July/004882.html

Later, references on the list were to the part of that thread starting at:
http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-July/004888.html

The ejabberd problem re-appeared again on the list in September (solutions 
from the April posting did apply):
http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-September/004993.html


Wiktor Rzeczkowski
McMaster University


On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Soulliere, Robert wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was updating the upgrade instructions and I just wanted a few clarifications:
>
> 1) When upgrading to 1.6: before running the database upgrade script at step 5, we recommend backing up the database. Now, I have been assuming that only a data dump of the Evergreen database would be required to be secure before running the sql script. However, Roma mentioned that the original instructions mentioned backing up the postgres user directory. Is that required or only the database dump as I have assumed?
>
> 2) In the past, Dan seemed to indicate that the Karmic Koala version of Ubuntu was supported and had targets set up in the makefile.install files and that this would be made part of trunk. (See: http://www.mail-archive.com/open-ils-dev@list.georgialibraries.org/msg03673.html). However, In recent testing the Karmic targets seemed to be missing from the Makefile.install in the 1.2 version of OpenSRF. Could you verify if Karmic is officially supported and still working or did the beta version break stuff? It would be great to add the Karmic target references in the upgrade and install instructions.
>
> 3) Ejabberd issues: I was wondering if the Ejabberd issue as discussed here: http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2009-July/004888.html has been resolved and for which versions of Ejabberd? Is a downgrade required to get OpenSRF to work or did the patch fix? I was testing on my home machine with Ejabberd 2.0.5.1.1 and am getting the errors discussed in the thread.  Do I have to downgrade? If so, what is the best way to downgrade from 2.0.5.11? It might be good to have precise instructions for this somewhere in the install documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
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