Re: [Sandweb-users] Installation problems

[Nick J. <nk...@ia...>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:07:58PM -0700, Rob Helmer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:51:59AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > 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 only test SW with IE and Mozilla, last I checked it worked in
> Konq but it could use testing. I'll try to reproduce this.

 Hmm, I didn't catch this in the first email. Bryce, if it's possible
 to use a fairly recent Mozilla, at least for cross-testing purposes to 
 find the problem, that would be great.


> > 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} = { };
> 
> Hmm... haven't seen this before.

 My guess is the hash structure did not exist because it wasn't reading
 the config file correctly, if at all.

 
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm.. I think the create_repo bug is valid. It does seem to create
> the repo whether or not the checkout dir exists.

 Yeah I remember mentioning this before, is there a bug filed so we
 don't forget again?


> Also, right now there's no automatic checkin, because SandWeb isn't 
> really a CM system so much as a CVS client. 

 It's automatic, you just have to manualy activate the automatic
 checkin function each time. :)

- Nick