Re: [Sandweb-users] Installation problems

[Bryce H. <br...@os...>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Woah, Bryce, that seems like an awful lot of work to get SandWeb
> working. I'm thinking there may be some underlying problem here.

Those were my two thoughts as well.

> Did you go read the INSTALL and README files and follow the install
> procedure outlined? (i.e. perl Makefile.PL, make, (as root)make install)

Of course.  ;-)

What version of perl have you tested on?  I'm running 5.8.0.

> - Nick
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:51:59AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > I got the following warning when running sandweb-admin after
> > installation:
> >
> > Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at ../lib/SandWeb/Config.pm
> > line 352.
> > Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at ../lib/SandWeb/Config.pm
> > line 353.
> >
> > sandweb was unable to find its config files.  It was looking in ../etc
> > instead of ../etc/sandweb.  Furthermore, relative paths did not seem to
> > work properly at all.  I changed all instances of '../etc' to
> > '/usr/local/etc/sandweb'.
> >
> > For some reason that I could not determine, the javascript for one of
> > the tests in repository.js always fails.  This is the
> > isEmpty(document.repository.repo_root.value) validation command.  The
> > other validation commands work fine.  I tried it on Konqueror and
> > Netscape 4.x.  I ended up just commenting it out.
> >
> > I was getting errors when trying to update user info and it wasn't
> > "setting".  On line 2977 it sets the user params via:
> >
> >       $user->{'personal'}->{"$param"} = param("$param") || '';
> >
> > However there was no $user->{'personal'} value in the $user hash at this
> > point so it failed.  To fix this I added above the loop:
> >
> >       $user->{personal} = { };
> >
> > create_repo() always seems to return success, even when it actually
> > fails.  Also, the way it writes the XML files appears to be in error.
> > I can add a new repos but when I look at the list of repositories,
> > instead of showing a single repos with the name I gave, it shows
> > repositories with each of the fieldnames of a repository.  I suspect
> > this issue may be related to the 'using hash as a reference' issue
> > above.
> >
> > After having gone through all that, I was finally able to select the
> > repository and request checkout of the module 'foo' I needed.  However,
> > it simply errored saying something about "Filename foo could not be
> > found".
> >
> > All that I really need is to connect this to a single cvs repository,
> > and the number of users is going to be determinant, so if I could just
> > write the config files manually to set up the repository and users, that
> > would help.
> >
> > What I'm trying to determine is if it is possible to edit text files
> > through this interface and have them automatically get checked back into
> > cvs.  I see that there is an edit_file.html template, and am curious to
> > see how this works.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryce
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Nick Jennings wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:09:33AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > > I was playing around a bit with Sandweb (the release candidate), but
> > > > have been having a lot of difficulty getting it to work properly.  Is
> > > > the next release scheduled for release soon?
> > >
> > >  Hi Bryce, the installation shouldn't be a problem, what difficulties
> > >  are you having?
> > >
> > > - Nick
> > >
> >
> >
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