[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Attention Ubuntu Users

[bfeifarek at q.com]

Hi Jason,

This sounds very good.  Wolf Halton and I will kick the tires to see if we can get the "bleeding edge" demo server set up on Ubuntu 12.04.  I'll also try an install on 10.04 on the Amazon cloud when you have the Evergreen install targets ironed out.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Stephenson" <jstephenson at mvlc.org>
To: "Open-ILS Dev" <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 2:21:42 PM
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Attention Ubuntu Users

Hi,

I was going to save this message for after I had everything working,  
but I think a little advance notice is in order.

I am working on getting OpenSRF and Evergreen working on Ubuntu 12.04  
(Precise Pangolin). I'm working from a virtual machine installed with  
the alpha1 iso.

Presently, OpenSRF installs and works with only minimal changes to  
src/extras/Makefile.install. You can get these changes from  
git://git.evergreen-ils.org/working/OpenSRF.git. They are in the  
collab/dyrcona/precise_pangolin branch.

As I begin working on Evergreen, I see that  
Open-ILS/src/extras/Makefile.install is a bit of a mess when it comes  
to Ubuntu targets. The generic-ubuntu target, for instance is not  
actually a generic target. It does things that only certain Ubuntu  
releases need in addition to the actually generic bits.

I will be rewriting the Ubuntu targets rather heavily. As a result, I  
suggest that we not attempt to backport installation support for  
Ubuntu 12.04 to any previous release of Evergreen (2.0 or 2.1). This  
should strictly be for 2.2+.

Also, anyone who'd be willing to test these changes on 12.04 and/or  
10.04 would be most welcome.

Cheers,
Jason Stephenson