Yes. I set it in Eclipse but it amounts to the same thing.

Cheers.


Robin Taylor
Main Library
University of Edinburgh
Tel. 0131 6513808  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sands Fish [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 19 August 2009 16:37
> To: Robin Taylor
> Cc: Jeffrey Trimble; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Wee installation hitch
> 
> Mark Diggory may be able to shed more light on this, but I 
> believe Robin is right here, as I've experienced this as well.  
> 
> Robin, if I understand you, you ran the following command 
> with success, right?
> 
>   mvn package -Ddspace.dir=/my/dspace/install/destination
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Robin Taylor wrote:
> 
> 
>       Hi Jeffrey,
>       
>       Yes all that bit worked fine. The only problem bit was 
> 'mvn package'. It gets the various web.xml files from the 
> source directories but did not substitute a value for 
> ${dspace.dir}. I am not sure how it should do this, should it 
> be clever and look at the value in the edited dspace.cfg file 
> in the source directory ? It didn't appear to do so for me, I 
> had to manually set the parameter. I have just had a wee look 
> at the various pom's and there are references to a profile 
> for dspace.config but there is no mention of this in the 
> installation instructions.
>       
>       Cheers. 
>       
>       Robin Taylor
>       Main Library
>       University of Edinburgh
>       Tel. 0131 6513808  
>       
>       
> 
>               -----Original Message-----
>               
> 
>               From: Jeffrey Trimble [mailto:[email protected]] 
>               
> 
>               Sent: 19 August 2009 16:19
>               
> 
>               To: Robin Taylor
>               
> 
>               Cc: [email protected]
>               
> 
>               Subject: Re: Wee installation hitch
>               
> 
> 
>               Robin,
>               
> 
> 
>               Wow.  I just re-read the instructions.  This is 
> how I've 
>               
> 
>               compiled in the past.  Let's make sure we 
> understand that 
>               
> 
>               there are two /dspace directories in actuality 
> and you have 
>               
> 
>               to not confuse yourself. 
>               
> 
>               Anyone else who wants to chime in, please do.
>               
> 
> 
>               The first directory will be the one you make 
> with the mkdir 
>               
> 
>               dspace command.  This can be anywhere and it 
> will store the 
>               
> 
>               eventual output from the mvn package.  You will 
> not have 
>               
> 
>               anything populated in this directory.
>               
> 
>               It is referred to as [dspace] in most of the 
> documentation.  
>               
> 
>               (Whether your [dspace] directory is at root level or 
>               
> 
>               imbedded.  For my own installation my [dspace] 
> directory is 
>               
> 
>               /irmaag/dspace)
>               
> 
> 
>               The second dspace directory resides under 
> [dspace-source]  
>               
> 
>               (e.g. /dspace-1.5.2-src-release/dspace) This is 
> the dspace 
>               
> 
>               directory that you will make all the changes to 
> in dspace.cfg 
>               
> 
>               (/dspace-1.5.2-src-release/dspace/config)
>               
> 
> 
>               You will cd over the 
> /dspace-1.5.2-src-release/dspace and run 
>               
> 
>               your mvn package command there.  Then you would 
> go to the 
>               
> 
>               [dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-1.5.2.dir 
> and run the 
>               
> 
>               ant fresh_install.
>               
> 
> 
>               Those steps will populate the first [dspace] directory 
>               
> 
>               mentioned above.
>               
> 
> 
>               Is this not what you had happen?  
>               
> 
> 
>               --Jeff
>               
> 
> 
> 
>               Jeffrey Trimble
>               
> 
>               System LIbrarian
>               
> 
>               William F.  Maag Library
>               
> 
>               Youngstown State University
>               
> 
>               330.941.2483 (Office)
>               
> 
>               [email protected]
>               
> 
>               http://www.maag.ysu.edu
>               
> 
>               http://digital.maag.ysu.edu
>               
> 
>               "I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer.
>               
> 
>               I will permit it to pass over me and through me..."
>               
> 
>               --Litany against fear....
>               
> 
> 
>               On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Robin Taylor wrote:
>               
> 
> 
> 
>               As usual I have probably done something stupid but...
>               
> 
>               
>               
> 
>               I just installed Dspace 1.5.2 source release from 
>               
> 
>               scratch and I think there is a wee gap in the 
> installation 
>               
> 
>               intructions. In step 3.2.3.4 you are instructed 
> to edit  
>               
> 
>               [dspace-source]/dspace/config/dspace.cfg  prior 
> to doing your 
>               
> 
>               initial 'mvn package' and Ant fresh-install. 
> Amongst other 
>               
> 
>               things you set dspace.dir to be your 
> installation directory. 
>               
> 
>               You are then instructed to run 'mvn package' with no 
>               
> 
>               parameters set if you are using Postgres. The 
> problem is 
>               
> 
>               ${dspace.dir} is not replaced in the various 
> web.xml files in 
>               
> 
>               the build directory. To correct this I had to 
> rerun the 'mvn 
>               
> 
>               package' with dspace.dir set as a parameter. No 
> big deal but 
>               
> 
>               it's the sort of thing that can cause a 
> newcomer a lot of 
>               
> 
>               grief. The easiest fix would be to update the 
> instructions to 
>               
> 
>               tell the user to add the parameter but I am 
> sure there must 
>               
> 
>               be a better way.
>               
> 
>               
>               
> 
>               Cheers, Robin.
>               
> 
>               
>               
> 
>               
>               
> 
>               
>               
> 
>               Robin Taylor
>               
> 
>               Main Library
>               
> 
>               University of Edinburgh
>               
> 
>               Tel. 0131 6513808
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