[LON-CAPA-admin] Version 1.1.2 released
Guy Albertelli II
guy at albertelli.com
Thu Mar 11 16:13:15 EST 2004
New Version 1.1.2 Released
More bugfixes, I'd suggest installing this if you have the chance or
one of the bugs below has hit you.
Changes:
- added French translation
- added some machines
- support multi-domained machines with authors
- postinstall checks ownership of databases
- scantron grading works when problem is CLOSED or is already
graded and is receivng a different grade
- scantron grading works for <matchresponse> and <rankresponse>
- <matchresponse> prints when table is placed 'left or 'right'
- <optionresponse> and <numericalrespone> better about generating bubbles
from scantron mode
- print single <part>ed problem for exams better about showing weights
- uploaded scores display better about cases where it would do
5.9999999999, also hides the 'The correct answer is' and 'Tries' strings
more properly
- can now 'Reply' to messages in Bulletin Boards
- sending message to students from uploaded file works now
- printing uses the specified paper width values correctly
- printing works for users with _lots_ of roles
- printing works for images in CSTR space
- SPRS could hide data in unlikely cases
- removed unused parameter 'problemstyle'
- publishing problems with tag-like strings inside of a <script> could
cause bad metadata to be generated
- fixed case where lond could lock up in a &wait()
- fixed problem with CHRT/STAT where ' appeared in student submissions
To install this update:
1) You will need to be running Redhat 7.X (preferably 7.3) or Fedora
for this release to work
If you are running Fedora please see this page for instructions
http://install.loncapa.org/fedora_install.html
If you are running Redhat 7.X instructions for updating follow.
2) if you haven't already download and install the 3.9 systemperl rpm
If you are running RedHat 7.X get
http://install.loncapa.org/resources/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.9-rh7.i386.rpm
Install it by doing:
rpm -e `rpm -q -a | grep systemperl`
rpm --install --force --nodeps LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.9-rh7.i386.rpm
Verify it is installed by doing:
$ rpm -q LON-CAPA-systemperl
RedHat 7.X will show
LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.9-rh7
3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-1.1.2.tar.gz
and untar it
tar xzvf loncapa-1.1.2.tar.gz
4) Run the UPDATE script as root
cd loncapa-1.1.2
su
./UPDATE
5) restart the system services
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
----NOTES
1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
2) Defect reports, and enhancement requests can be entered at
http://bugs.lon-capa.org
3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org
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