It's discussed in the following page of the Tool Shed wiki. https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/InstallingRepositoriesToGalaxy#Installing_Galaxy_tool_shed_repository_tools_into_a_local_Galaxy_instance
On Jan 20, 2014, at 7:27 PM, "Dooley, Damion" <damion.doo...@bccdc.ca> wrote: > That advice did the trick, thanks Greg. I only had .loc files in the upload > set; didn't know about the .sample version or > tool_data_table_conf.xml.sample. One thing, did I miss reading the > documentation on this somewhere or is this workshop type knowledge? > ________________________________________ > From: Greg Von Kuster [g...@bx.psu.edu] > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 1:21 PM > To: Dooley, Damion > Cc: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu > Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Toolshed throwing error when reading tool's XML > > Hello Damion, > > Tool Shed repositories that contain tools that include dynamically generated > select list parameters that refer to an entry in the tool_data_table_conf.xml > file must contain a tool_data_table_conf.xml.sample file that contains the > required entry for each dynamic parameter. Similarly, any index files (i.e., > ~/tool-data/xxx.loc files) to which the tool_data_table_conf.xml file entries > refer must be defined in xxx.loc.sample files included in the tool shed > repository along with the tools. If any of these tool_data_table_conf.xml > entries or any of the required xxx.loc.sample files are missing from the tool > shed repository, the tools will not properly load and metadata will not be > generated for the repository. This means that the tools cannot be > automatically installed into a Galaxy instance. > > For those tools that include dynamically generated select list parameters > that require a missing entry in the tool_data_table_conf.xml file, this file > will be modified in real time (when it is installed into a Galaxy instance) > by adding the entry from a tool_data_table_conf.xml.sample file contained in > the tool shed repository. > > Based on your problem description, it seems that your repository may not > include a required xxx.loc.sample file. > > Let me know if adding one does not solve the problem. Is your repository in > one of the Galaxy team;'s public tool sheds? > > Greg Von Kuster > ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
