[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Heads up on Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" and current Evergreen incompatibility

[Edward Corrado]

Thanks for the update Dan. I believe Hardy Heron is a long term supported
release. For that reason, I'd like to use it so I am not forced to upgrade
as quickly.

Edward

> So, as an early adopter, I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" on
> Friday.
>
> Right now, you don't want to try running the current Evergreen code on
> Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> 1. The staff client won't work; it seems that in the move from
> xulrunner 1.8.1.4 in Gutsy -> 1.8.1.13 in Hardy, they added some extra
> permission checks that the current Evergreen staff client doesn't deal
> with. So you'll see exceptions at the command line like:
> """Exception... "Security Manager vetoed action"  nsresult:
> "0x80570027 (NS_ERROR_XPC_SECURITY_MANAGER_VETO)"""
>
> 2. Ubuntu 8.04 ships with PostgreSQL 8.3.0. This is the first release
> of PostgreSQL in which full-text search is part of the core database
> engine, rather than a contributed module (called 'tsearch2'). When the
> PostgreSQL developers moved full-text search into core, they made the
> interface more consistent - but broke backwards compatibility in the
> process. Evergreen, of course, relies heavily on PostgreSQL's
> full-text search, and currently ships with schemas for the old
> tsearch2 module - so Evergreen won't work with PostgreSQL 8.3. There
> is a compatibility module for tsearch2 that can help a bit, but the
> real answer is to build a PostgreSQL 8.3 schema for Evergreen.
>
> ** Note that the Ubuntu upgrade process is smart enough to recognize
> that upgrading from PostgreSQL 8.2 -> 8.3 will break applications, so
> it will keep PostgreSQL 8.2 around until you tell it to move to 8.3.
> This means that if you upgrade your Ubuntu server to 8.04, you can
> keep running Evergreen on it. You just won't be running a supported
> version of PostgreSQL...
>
> I hope to be able to hunt down the staff client problem in the next
> day or two. I've also started looking into what it will take to build
> the PostgreSQL 8.3.0 schema, but that will take more time. Until these
> incompatibilities are fixed, I would strongly advise you to stick with
> Debian 4.0 "Etch" for your server and Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" for
> your client... or pitch in and help fix them :)
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
>