Re: [Koha-devel] Problem with upgrading and specify backup directory

[Paul POULAIN]

Klaus Weidenbach a écrit :

> Heihei,
>  
Hello from Euroland,

> > Are you sure you run the updater as a user with enough permissions ?
> >    
> Well, I was first user klaus and I have permissions to write in the directory 
> I gave under "Please specify a directory to store the backup in", but the 
> updater didn't took that directory, but always wanted to write in the default 
> location: [/usr/local/backups] where I had no rights. I have then tried as 
> root and then it worked, but it wrote the backup in /usr/local/backups and 
> not in the folder I gave.
>  
Yes, there was a bug [1]

> Oh, the messages "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
> Install.pm line 2117, <STDIN> line 5." were another problem, because I have 
> my koha config not in /etc, but I changed a line in the updater script and 
> then this message disasspeared. Is it possible to add a command line 
> parameter for the updater where I can give the path to the config file? 
>  
Export KOHA_CONF=/path/to/koha.conf before doing anything
;-)

> > what happends if you add just after :
> > my $answer =
> > showmessage(getmessage('BackupDir',[$backupdir]),'free',$backupdir);
> > (in line 2089)
> > $backupdir = $answer;
> >    
> Yes, that fixed this problem! ;))
>  
[1] and this hack fixes it ;-)

I modify Install.pm immedialty !

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