[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA Version 2.8.0

Sun Jan 18 15:42:11 EST 2009

Hi, sorry for the repeat message if the other one gets through
(sent the first from the wrong mail account).

I'm just finalizing the installation of 2.8.0 on our Fedora-9 ppc64
servers
(getting ready to request joining to the cluster).  Since ppc64
doesn't seem
to be a supported architechture, I've been building the lon-capa
specific
rpms from source.

I was looking for the source RPM for the new perl-Date-Time for Fedora
9,
and it doesn't seem to be in the usual place:
http://install.lon-capa.org/fedora/linux/loncapa/9/SRPMS/

Could this be made available as soon as practical.

Many thanks,
Michael Dugdale
Department of Physics,
John Abbott College

On 16-Jan-09, at 12:51 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:

> Lars,
>
> perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.0.<distro><version>.lc.<arch>.rpm rpms have
> been built for all distros on which LON-CAPA is supported (and added
> to the corresponding LON-CAPA repository on install.loncapa.org), in
> cases where the distro's core repository either contains a version
> that is too old or, alternatively, does not contain this particular  
> rpm.
>
> This includes SuSE 10.2.
>
> You will need to update the perl-DateTime rpm installed on your
> system.  How this is done depends on the distro.  In the case of SuSE
> you should use yast.
>
> 1. yast -> Software -> Installation Source
> 2. Select the listed YAST repository: "http://install.loncapa.org/suse/10.2/ 
> "
> 3. Source Settings -> Refresh Now
> 4  Finish
> 5. Software -> Software Management
> 6. Search perl-DateTime
> 7. Confirm that the "Avail. Vers." listed is 0.4304.
> 8. Toggle the -i- > to update, and use Accept.
>
> If you cannot get this to work you could fetch the rpm directly:
>
> wget
> http://install.loncapa.org/suse/10.2/RPMS/i586/perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i586.rpm
>
> As perl-DateTime has a dependency on perl-List-MoreUtils you'll also
> need that:
>
> wget
> http://install.loncapa.org/suse/10.2/RPMS/i386/perl-List-MoreUtils-0.22-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i386.rpm
>
> and then do:
>
> rpm -ivh perl-List-MoreUtils-0.22-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i386.rpm
>
> followed by
>
> rpm -Uvh perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.0.suse10.2.lc.i586.rpm
>
> If you use yast, the perl-List-MoreUtils dependency will be handled
> automatically.
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
>
>
> Quoting Lars Jensen <ljensen at tmcc.edu>:
>
>> Hi Stuart,
>>
>> We're running opensuse 10.2, which is not being updated anymore. The
>> version we have installed of perl-Datetime is
>> perl-DateTime-0.41-1.0.suse10.2.lc. I assume this won't work with
>> loncapa 2.8. Do you know where I can find a perl-Datetime rpm for  
>> suse
>> 10.2? Or do I have to build the module? If so, are there any
>> dependencies that must be satisfied?
>>
>> Lars.
>>
>> Stuart Raeburn wrote:
>>> New Version 2.8.0 Released
>>>
>>> Notable Changes from 2.7.1:
>>>
>>> Authoring Resources
>>>
>>> - Publication is possible for problems that do not include any
>>> response items, but include imported libraries.
>>>
>>> - When viewed in "Show Answer" status, Organic Material Response
>>> items display a "Show Your Last Answer" button if a JME string for
>>> display as the computer's answer was omitted. (In 2.7.0, but
>>> eliminated in 2.7.1 when the pencil icon replaced the "Draw
>>> Molecule" button).
>>>
>>>
>>> Student Interface
>>>
>>> - Users with a single role/course no longer have this role selected
>>> automatically.
>>> Instead the courses/roles page will be displayed for all users  
>>> after log-in.
>>>
>>> - A "Re-initialize/Re-select" course button is shown on the
>>> roles/courses screen for all course users when in course context.
>>>
>>> - The WYSIWYG editor used for composing HTML in text areas has  
>>> been updated
>>>
>>> - The mimeTeX utility used to create bitmap images for display of
>>> mathematical typesetting has been updated.  Inline images now
>>> display in vertical alignment with any surrounding text.
>>>
>>> - For inline navigation (set to icons or icons/text) the
>>> annotations to a resource icon will change if a user has already
>>> annotated the resource.
>>>
>>> - The starting day of the week used in the calendar is determined  
>>> by Locale.
>>>
>>> - Files uploaded by students for submission to assignments (e.g.,
>>> via a Drop Box) are subject to a size restriction.
>>>
>>> - The assigned quota and the amount of disk space currently in use
>>> for the user's Portfolio are displayed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Communications
>>>
>>> - System-generated text in a notification e-mail is localized
>>> according to the recipient's language preference (or course
>>> language preference, if message sent in course context).
>>>
>>> - Each recipient receives a single notification e-mail if
>>> notification e-mail and permanent e-mail addresses are the same,
>>> and e-mail should go to both.
>>>
>>> - The sender's e-mail address is omitted from notification e-mail
>>> headers if the original LON-CAPA message did not permit replies.
>>> The text of the e-mail also warns that replies will not be received
>>> by the sender.
>>>
>>> - The recipient type - either To: or Cc: - is preserved when
>>> displaying a message.
>>> Selections from both To: or Cc: recipients can be made when  
>>> replying.
>>>
>>> -  A pop-up window can be launched to show a list of recipients
>>> when displaying a message broadcast to multiple course participants.
>>>
>>> - Group members sending a broadcast message to active group members
>>> can elect to designate recipients as either Cc: or Bcc:.
>>>
>>> - Ccs set in the "Contact Helpdesk" web form only apply if the form
>>> is accessed by a logged-in user.
>>>
>>>
>>> Course Management
>>>
>>> - The default maximum for the cumulative size of files a user can
>>> submit to a particular question is 10 MB.   Max. file size is a
>>> parameter which can be set at a course, folder or resource level
>>> for all users or specific users.
>>>
>>> - Storage of information about file uploads in a course's activity
>>> log has been streamlined.
>>>
>>> - A file uploaded to a Drop Box is not overwritten by later
>>> submission of a similarly named file by the same user to a
>>> different assignment.
>>>
>>> - The naming scheme for page/sequence files which record
>>> folder/composite page contents is more succinct where the
>>> folder/page is a copy of an existing course item.
>>>
>>> - If a course timezone has been defined, this will be applied to
>>> all dates/times shown when using the "Student Activity" utility to
>>> display recent activity in a course.
>>>
>>>
>>> Grading
>>>
>>> - Formularesponse items will not accept a comma in an individual
>>> submission  - either as a scalar answer or within a single
>>> component in a vector answer (vector answers still use a comma as
>>> separator between components).
>>>
>>> - If timeouts or internal errors prevent grading of a submission, a
>>> student will not be charged a try, and will be able to submit the
>>> same answer again.
>>>
>>> - When grading bubble sheet exams, an optional verification can
>>> check for inconsistencies between bubbled letters/numbers and
>>> stored submissions.  A scan line with anomalies receives a second
>>> grading pass, and a warning is displayed if they persist.
>>>
>>> - The zip file which can be generated of all files submitted by
>>> selected students to a particular assignment now includes files
>>> uploaded directly as well as files selected from students'
>>> portfolios.
>>>
>>>
>>> Domain Coordination/Domain Settings
>>>
>>> - Default Locale can be set for a domain or for a course.
>>>
>>> - User Tools (Personal Home Page, Blogs and User Portfolio) can be
>>> enabled/disabled for users in a domain based on affiliation (e.g.,
>>> Faculty, Staff, Student etc.).  Any domain-wide access controls can
>>> be overridden for individual users by a Domain Coordinator.  The
>>> default is for all three tools to be enabled for all users.
>>>
>>> - The lightweight webserver run on port 8080 (lonhttpd) formerly
>>> used to serve icons has been eliminated because of issues with
>>> institutional firewalls.  The standard web server on port 80 (or
>>> 443 for SSL) is now used.
>>>
>>> - Display of a banner and/or main logo on the log-in page (either
>>> custom or default) can be disabled.
>>>
>>> _ A Domain Coordinator's Main Menu includes a "Domain Status" item
>>> which links to a number of utilities which provide server status
>>> information.
>>>
>>> _ Access to server status pages can be configured for specific
>>> users, or from specific IP addresses.  Domain Coordinators
>>> automatically have access for servers in their domain.  This
>>> replaces the previously used Apache Basic Auth access control.
>>>
>>>
>>> Printing
>>>
>>> - Generation of printouts is faster (and postscript files are
>>> smaller) as a result of minimizing the incidence of missing fonts
>>> (which must be generated).
>>>
>>> - The HTML paragraph tag is disabled when printing tables to
>>> prevent hung print jobs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Localization
>>>
>>> - New translations and improvements were made for the German  
>>> interface.
>>>
>>>
>>> Appearance
>>>
>>> - More interface standardization using the following display  
>>> elements:
>>> - Data tables with rows of alternating light/dark background
>>> colors, and a colored header.
>>> - Two column data tables with a colored left column, and light
>>> gray right column.
>>> - Boxes with a thin border used to group similar items together.
>>>
>>>
>>> Installation Notes:
>>>
>>> To use this release you need to have version 1-12 of LONCAPA- 
>>> prerequisites
>>> installed (this is the same version as used with LON-CAPA 2.7). You
>>> will need to update the version of perl-DateTime installed on your
>>> server to perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.
>>>
>>> To install this update:
>>>
>>> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, 8, or 9, RHEL
>>> (AS|ES) 4 or 5, SUSE 10.1 10.2 or 10.3, SLES 9 or 10, CentOS 5,
>>> Scientific Linux 5 .(Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is
>>> deprecated.)
>>>
>>> 2) Update perl-DateTime to 0.4304.
>>>
>>> (a) Fedora
>>> yum update
>>>
>>> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
>>>
>>> up2date -u perl-DateTime
>>>
>>> (c) Red Hat 5/Centos 5/Scientific Linux 5
>>>
>>> yum update
>>>
>>> (d) SuSE/SLES
>>>
>>> Use yast-> Installation Source to refresh the LON-CAPA repository
>>> Use yast->Software Management->Search to update perl-DateTime
>>>
>>> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that you have
>>> the correct versions of LONCAPA-prerequisites and perl-DateTime
>>> installed before proceeding.
>>>
>>> rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
>>>
>>> should report:
>>> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-12.X
>>>
>>> rpm -q perl-DateTime
>>>
>>> should report:
>>> perl-DateTime-0.4304-1.X
>>>
>>> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc7.lc)
>>>
>>> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
>>> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.8.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>> and untar it
>>>
>>> tar xzvf loncapa-2.8.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>> 4) stop the LON-CAPA system services
>>>
>>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol stop
>>>
>>> 5) stop the webserver:
>>>
>>> Fedora/RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux
>>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
>>>
>>> SLES 9:
>>> /etc/init.d/apache stop
>>>
>>> SUSE 10.1,2,3/SLES 10:
>>> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>>>
>>>
>>> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
>>> cd loncapa-2.8.0
>>> su
>>> ./UPDATE
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 7) restart the LON-CAPA system services
>>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start
>>>
>>>
>>> 8) restart the webserver:
>>>
>>> Fedora/RHEL/Centos/Scientific Linux
>>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
>>>
>>> SLES 9:
>>> /etc/init.d/apache start
>>>
>>> SUSE 10.1,2,3/SLES 10:
>>> /etc/init.d/apache2 start
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----NOTES
>>> 1) Many questions are answered at http://help.lon-capa.org
>>> 2) Defects reports, and enhancements requests can be entered at
>>>    http://bugs.lon-capa.org
>>> 3) Mailing lists can be joined and left at http://mail.lon-capa.org
>>>
>>> Stuart Raeburn
>>> MSU LON-CAPA group
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