[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#386444: Pkg-mediawiki-devel post from schoepf-debian@gmx.de requires approval

[Romain Beauxis]

Le vendredi 15 septembre 2006 14:21, Thomas Schoepf a écrit :
> Hello Romain,
>
> > The upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 was not clear and not well documented, that
> > is the main reason why we did not make it automatic, as well as the
> > utf8 things.
>
> Btw: Do you know whether upgrading from 1.4 directly to 1.7 works better?

Dunno, I would say it is better to do it with 1.5 intermediate but you can try

> > Thank for the feedback, we should update the documentation later.
>
> I'd suggest to update the documenation earlier, because it e.g. ignores the
> fact that /var/lib/mediawiki1.5/LocalSettings.php and
> /var/lib/mediawiki1.5/AdminSettings.php are symlinks into /etc/mediawiki1.5
> right after installing the package.

Could you explain this, I didn't understand..

> > Also, you should have tried with a symlink as I was proposing, because
> > all the files, in fine, are in /var/lib/mediawiki not un share..
>
> I guess you mean /var/lib/mediawiki1.5, right?

It is the same thing for all packages, see below..

> Of course, that raises the question why a (plain fresh installed)
> mediawiki1.5 is looking for /usr/share/mediawiki1.5/LocalSettings.php in
> the first place.

Simply because we seperate the files and put those that are not meant to be 
modified in /usr/share and those that are meant to be changed to /var/lib
Then the php include code don't guess this and tries to include something 
like ../LocalSettings.php from the /usr/share/*/maintenance/ dir...

> Using a symlink from /usr/share/mediawiki1.5/LocalSettings.php to
> /var/lib/mediawiki1.5/LocalSettings.php in fact changed the result. On
> trying to access the wiki instead of the usual front-page I get the error:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wfgetmaincache() in
> /usr/share/mediawiki1.5/includes/Setup.php on line 109

Try to check $IP parameters and check the includes..

> Btw: /var/lib/mediawiki1.5/LocalSettings.php is not modified compared to
> /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php

What do you mean?


Romain
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