Installation advice

[tcpip]

Pointed here by the dw-discuss mailing list

I am installing a development version of Dreamwidth with a view for making it a shared collaboration space for Australia's researchers.

I have followed the instructions - to the letter from http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dreamwidth_Scratch_Installation on dreamwidth.domain.tld

However I am receiving the "If you've gotten this error, it means that something is currently (and, with luck, temporarily) broken. Please wait five minutes and try again." page instead of a happy pinkish DW page.

I'd like to get this working so we can throw some development energy into it :)

Comments

[tcpip]

Thanks for the prompt response Mark... If you like, I'm more than happy to help with documentation.

When I run bin/cvsreport.pl I get an error message suggesting that Mecurial isn't installed! Which certainly isn't the case. i.e.,


dw@dreamwidth:~$ bin/cvsreport.pl --checkout
abort: destination '/home/dw/cvs/perlbal' already exists
Failed to run hg: is it installed? at /home/dw/bin/vcv line 202, line 17.


The relevant code fragment seems to suggest that install directory for Mecurial (which is done by package much earlier in the piece) hasn't been associated properly..


unless (-d $full_ldir && -d $full_ldir_svn) {
unless ($opt_checkout) {
die "Mercurial directory '$ldir' doesn't exist under $DIR_CVS. " .
"Re-run vcv with --checkout for me to automatically get it for you.\n";
}
my @opts;
if ($rev) { push @opts, "-r", $rev; }
system("hg", "clone", @opts, $src, $full_ldir) and
die "Failed to run hg: is it installed?";


[mark]

Oh, right. Okay, so long story short, it's because this used to be a SVN repository and now it's an HG repository. Right now, bootstrap.pl gives you the SVN one, then cvsreport.pl fails because it expected HG.

The trick is to remove it and then do checkout:

$ rm -rf cvs/perlbal/
$ bin/cvsreport.pl --checkout

And the documentation that needs updating is bootstrap, it should Do The Right Thing, not give you a half-setup system that fails. (I believe it's because it's updating to the wrong branch, one that is really old?)

[whobutdrew]

Now that I got past my first problem, I'm getting this one.

Should I post my error log here or in a new post?

[mark]

"This one"? Either is fine with me. You're welcome to post toplevel if you want more feedback, it's almost guaranteed to get answers faster than just commenting deep in some thread.

I'd suggest posting a comment to this post with a link to any new post, though, just so people can follow to the next set of comments if they want.

[whobutdrew]

Sorry, I forgot that this thread was almost 2 months old!

I reposted my woes here.