On 2018-04-18 09:57 AM, Jonathan Druart wrote:
We have Koha running on a RHEL 6 instance which uses 5.10.1, and it seems
to be doing fine so far. It is an older version of Koha though.
Which version is "an older version of Koha"?
Hesitating to intervene, but as a point of reference, we have three
instances (WAN, LAN and backup) of Koha 3.8.24 running perfectly (Ubuntu
LTS 14.04 [note 1] and 16.04) using Perl versions from 5.018002 up to
5.022001. Our notes do not show that we had to "downgrade" any
particular Perl modules, libraries etc (just add a few during tarball
installs.)
Over the next few weeks, we will start our two-yearly software review
with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and try the latest version of Koha (we decided in
2016 not to upgrade Koha, as we are a non-lending library and saw a
performance hit on cataloguing and search, both OPAC and staff. "If it
ain't broke, don't fix it" -- with obvious security mods.)
If we find anything relevant, I'll get back to you all.
Best -- Paul
Tired old sys-admin.
Note 1: our WAN OPAC server: /$ uptime 11:16:12 up 1022 days, 14:47 --
not too shabby for reliability ;=}
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 22:36 David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au
<mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>> wrote:
Hi Jonathan,____
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Thanks for reverting that patch. ____
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We have Koha running on a RHEL 6 instance which uses 5.10.1, and it
seems to be doing fine so far. It is an older version of Koha
though. I just did the following grep: grep -R "use 5\." *. I see
“use 5.010” but nothing greater than that. ____
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I don’t think there’s really much that is special about installing
Koha on OpenSUSE per se. We just do a source install and use a
combination of vendor packages and CPAN modules to meet the required
dependencies. (Actually, we now do RPM builds that match a
particular structure that we used when we just did source installs
by hand.) I could take a look at the wiki though.____
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*From:*Jonathan Druart
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<mailto:jonathan.dru...@bugs.koha-community.org>]
*Sent:* Tuesday, 17 April 2018 8:58 PM
*To:* David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au
<mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>>
*Cc:* koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org
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*Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Koha now requires Perl 5.20____
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Hi David,____
I did not confirm Mark's assumption on pushing but made sure 5.20
was available in most of the GNU/Linux distros I know.____
If this restriction is not necessary it does not make sense to keep
it, I am going to revert the patch later today.____
However I am pretty sure 5.10 is not enough.____
If you have knowledge about how to install Koha on OpenSuse it would
be great to update the wiki, the existing page is from 2010. We have
people asking on #koha or the mailing list sometimes.____
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Cheers,____
Jonathan____
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 at 22:41 David Cook <dc...@prosentient.com.au
<mailto:dc...@prosentient.com.au>> wrote:____
Hi all,____
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I just tried to work on Koha master on OpenSUSE 42.3, which was
released on 2017-07-26, but I’m being prevented from installing
Koha, because OpenSUSE 42.3 uses Perl 5.18.2 rather than Perl
5.20. ____
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I tracked the change back to
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=20104.
The claim was that C4::Log::cronlogaction uses caller and that
caller doesn’t exist before Perl 5.20, but that’s not true. The
caller function has been in Perl for an extremely long time. You
can find it in RHEL 6.9 which uses Perl 5.10. I just used it in
Perl 5.18.2. So that doesn’t seem like a good justification for
requiring a minimum version of Perl 5.20.____
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I have a feeling that this change is going to bite other people
developing and using Koha around the world. There are people
running Koha on openSUSE, Suse Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Red
Hat, CentOS… probably other distros as well. Are we really going
to exclude everyone that doesn’t use recent Debian-based distros
from using newer versions of Koha?____
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It seems to me that this decision was made without community
discussion. Maybe I’m wrong, but I figured I’d bring it up with
everyone. ____
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For my part, I’m just going to hack around this requirement for
now, but I don’t really like that as a long-term solution. ____
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What does everyone else think?____
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David Cook____
Systems Librarian____
Prosentient Systems____
72/330 Wattle St
<https://maps.google.com/?q=72/330+Wattle+St+Ultimo,+NSW&entry=gmail&source=g>____
Ultimo, NSW
<https://maps.google.com/?q=72/330+Wattle+St+Ultimo,+NSW&entry=gmail&source=g>
2007____
Australia____
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