On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:06, Marcello Nuccio <[email protected]> wrote: > Randall, I've found the time to test your PPA on Ubuntu Oneiric server 32bit. > > Following *exactly* your instructions, I've installed couchdb-1.0.1 > from Ubuntu repositories, because you forgot to `apt-get update` after > `apt-add-repository`. > > Then I've tried to "dist-upgrade". This went well, but the old service > failed to stop during upgrade. So I had to kill the old process before > starting the new one. However this is not a problem of your PPA. > > Then I've run the test suite from Futon and it worked. > > Can I suggest to use Upstart instead of the old system? It's trivially > easy to setup, and it's much more reliable. It never happened to me > that stopping of a service fails with upstart. I can send you the > configuration I'm using if you want.
Great feedback. I'd love to see the upstart config you're using. I looked at an upstart setup for the first time this past week and it seems very easy indeed. > > Thanks, > Marcello > > 2012/1/20 Randall Leeds <[email protected]>: >> The Ubuntu instructions are the wiki are incredible difficult to >> follow because things have changed in the Ubuntu repositories, mostly >> around SpiderMonkey, and it's really hard to communicate it all in the >> wiki. I've tried and I've edited that page a number of times but I >> know there are problems... I'll comb back through it. Sorry for that. >> >> I wish I had caught this thread earlier, but if you wouldn't mind >> testing out my PPA for Ubuntu, that would be great. It should install >> 1.1.1 on any Natty with no trouble. >> >> $ apt-get install python-software-properties <- needed for >> next command >> $ apt-add-repository ppa:randall-leeds/couchdb >> $ apt-get install couchdb >> $ update-rc.d couchdb defaults <- start at startup >> >> I haven't put this on the wiki because I haven't received feedback yet >> from people tell me it worked for them. >> >> -Randall
