[LON-CAPA-admin] LON-CAPA Version 2.9.0
Woonki Chung
chung at georgetown.edu
Thu Jun 3 23:09:03 EDT 2010
Todd (and Stuart),
Thank you for your suggestion. However, all the packages seem to be in
the loncapa repository already and some are named as loncapa rpms
(*.lc.*.rpm) as usual. Since the repository has been already added to
the system, we should be able to use the right packages as intended.
There are many different repositories out there, and I don't think it is
a good idea to mix different repositories for some packages. Before I
try anything, I would like to ask Stuart the following:
1. Any suggestion or fix on the repository soon?
2. Did you get those packages from EPEL (as Todd mentioned)?
3. Do you really recommend to use/mix the additional repository to get
around the problem?
Thanks,
Woonki
On 6/3/2010 6:12 PM, Todd Ruskell wrote:
> Woonki,
>
> I've had similar issues before. Stuart pointed me to the EPEL
> repositories, and that generally fixed everything nicely.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
> Hopefully it will also work for you.
>
> Todd
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Woonki Chung <chung at georgetown.edu
> <mailto:chung at georgetown.edu>> wrote:
>
> For a RedHat Enterprise 4 system, "up2date -u
> LONCAPA-prerequisites" complains dependencies. (See the output
> below) Do I have to install them manually??
>
> Thanks,
> Woonki
>
> # up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-as-4...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-as-4-extras...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: loncapa-updates...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: loncapa-updates-noarch...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name Version Rel
> Arch
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1
> 18.EAS4 x86_64
>
>
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
>
> Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
> #######################################
> Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
> There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
>
> Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires perl-CAM-PDF
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires perl-LaTeX-Table
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires perl-Tie-IxHash-Easy
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires tetex-acrotex
> LONCAPA-prerequisites 1-18.EAS4 requires tetex-xcolor
> R-core 2.10.1-1.el4 requires
> perl(File::Copy::Recursive)
>
>
> The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy
> dependencies:
> Package Required by
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn wrote:
>
> New Version 2.9.0 Released
>
> Changes from 2.8.1:
>
> Authoring Resources
>
> - CSS, javascript and plain text files (.css, .js, and .txt
> extensions) can be edited.
> - Assistant Co-authors can browse directories in the
> repository of published resources
> belonging to author(s) to whom they are assigned as assistant
> co-author.
> - The "Edit Math" button (which launches a pop-up Math
> expression editor) is available
> when editing HTML files.
> - Adaptive hints are available for reactionresponse and
> organicresponse types.
> - The R statistics package can be used in place of Maxima as a
> Computer Algebra
> system (CAS) in mathresponse and formularesponse problems. R
> can also be used to
> generate data sets in problems by using calls to appropriate
> cas routines within a
> script block. Example templates are provided.
> - Custom Response problems can award partial credit for
> problems containing multiple
> answers.
> - In dynamic plots (GNUplot) - x and y axis zero lines can be
> displayed as regular lines,
> thick lines, or as dotted lines.
> - Checkbox attribute for simple two-option optionresponse type
> allows checkboxes to be
> used instead of two item select box (e.g., for True/False).
> See: SimpleTrueFalse
> problem template.
>
> Student Interface
>
> - Information about resources for which access is controlled
> by reservation (i.e., slots)
> is displayed on the "Table of Contents" page (renamed from
> "Navigate Contents").
> - Students within a course can access a "Manage Reservations"
> utility from the Main Menu.
> This may be used to view and change reservations, and also
> display a log of reservation
> transactions.
> - When a user initiates the reset password process for an
> internally authenticated
> account, the e-mail address entered in the web form can now
> be any of: permanent email,
> critical notification email or regular notification email.
> - Courses with access start dates which were in the future
> when the student logged in,
> will become selectable from the courses screen, once the
> start date has been reached,
> without the need for logout/login.
> - Course Configuration for "Grading" includes a mode to not
> show total parts when a
> student displays his/her grading information.
>
> Communication
>
> - When rendering discussion posts and other feedback for the
> web, new lines will no
> longer be automatically converted to <br /> tags if HTML
> block elements are detected
> (suggesting the author had used HTML originally during
> composition).
>
> Course/Community Management
>
> - A "Course/Community requests" icon is included in the "My
> Roles" or "My Courses"
> category if the user has rights to create courses or
> communities in their home domain,
> and/or in another domain.
> - Course Configuration (previously "Set Course Environment")
> has been moved to the top
> level ("Main Menu") and divided into separate sections, with
> permitted user input
> constrained by radio buttons, select boxes, checkboxes, etc.,
> in place of unrestricted
> entry via textboxes.
> - The Course Owner can assign the Course Coordinator role in a
> course to other users.
> - The Course Owner can declare other Course Coordinators as
> "Co-owners", who can choose
> to accept or deny co-ownership assignment. (Your institution
> may use co-ownership to
> permit access to institutional course rosters by the
> automated enrollment process).
> Co-owners are listed in the Course/Community Catalog, and can
> be used as a filter when
> searching for courses.
> - Alternative titles may be specified for standard role titles
> (e.g., Teaching Assistant
> etc.) in a course.
> - HTML documents uploaded directly to a course can be edited
> by a Course Coordinator.
> - The template displayed when creating custom roles depends on
> course type (Course or
> Community).
> - Coordinators can require all self-enrollment requests to be
> approved, and can specify
> which Coordinators should be notified when a self-enrollment
> request needs approval.
> - Coordinators can set an enrollment limit, which when reached
> will prevent new
> self-enrollments.
> - A link to the course request page is displayed after log-in
> if a user has no active
> roles, and has rights to request creation of courses/communities.
> - Slot reservation transactions are logged, and
> Coordinators/Instructors can view the
> history of reservation changes for a particular slot from the
> "History" link in the
> slots table.
> - "External" documents which may be included in a course (and
> display a web page from
> an external site in a frameset within LON-CAPA) are now more
> robust (e.g., trailing
> "&" trimmed from query string etc.).
> - Coordinators/Instructors are warned if there is a version
> discrepancy if the same
> resource is used more than once in a course, and the versions
> are different.
> - When a Coordinator uploads a file to a course, a check to
> determine if it is an HTML
> file will occur if the option to look for embedded objects
> was checked.
>
> Grading
>
> - Problems including randomlists are now supported for
> Bubblesheet grading
> (and verification).
> - When grading Bridge Tasks an additional check is made for
> consistency of username,
> domain and resource identifier between the grading key and
> the data to be submitted.
> - The Bubblesheet Data Uploader's upload screen now includes a
> link to the syllabus
> for the course selected to receive the data file. A
> comparison is made between the
> student populations in the course roster and in the
> bubblesheet data (based on
> student/employee ID), to try to detect uploads to the wrong
> course.
> - For Bubblesheet Data Uploaders picking a destination course,
> the institutional code
> textbox is replaced with linked select boxes (e.g., year,
> semester, department, number),
> as used in Course Catalog (if configured in the domain). The
> course owner/co-owner" row
> is replaced with "Course personnel includes: " row which can
> be used to search for
> courses where a specified username:domain has active
> non-student role.
>
> Domain Coordination/Domain Settings
>
> - Firewall configuration for traffic between LON-CAPA servers
> now restricts
> port access to IPs for servers currently in the LON-CAPA
> cluster. The nightly cron
> process which checks LON-CAPA connections will update the
> firewall for any
> changes in membership of the cluster.
> - Display of the log-in page for specific servers in a domain
> can be replaced by
> automatic redirection to a different server (e.g., to a
> LON-CAPA load balancer server,
> used solely for authentication and session switching).
> - Domain Coordinators can modify institutional status for
> users in their domain.
> - A new configuration is available to set which users may
> request creation of:
> (a) official courses, (b) unofficial courses, or (c) communities.
> - Communities are similar to courses except the Coordinator
> may only browse areas
> of the shared LON-CAPA repository for which he/she has an
> author or co-author role.
> - Course/Community requests may be set to be processed
> automatically, queued for approval
> by a Domain Coordinator, or (for official courses) validated
> against the institutional
> instructor of record.
> - Domain Coordinators can permit course requests to be made by
> users from other domains,
> on a user-by-user basis.
> - A Domain Coordinator can set which affiliations within the
> institution (e.g., Faculty,
> Staff etc.) may create his/her own account (applies to
> institutional login/SSO only).
> - The course creation menu includes additional links: (a)
> display course requests queued
> pending approval by a Domain Coordinator; (b) display
> requests for official courses
> queued pending institutional validation; (c) display a log of
> course creation history.
> - The "Edit this resource" link is displayed to a Domain
> Coordinator in course context,
> if the domain of the resource author is the domain of the
> current role.
> - The aggregate database of courses in a domain used when
> searching for a course (e.g.,
> when selecting an ad hoc role, choosing a course to clone
> etc.) is rebuilt nightly
> by cron from permanent data stored in each course's
> environment.db file.
> - Domain Coordinators may filter by time elapsed since course
> creation when using the
> course picker (e.g., to select an ad hoc role, assign a
> Course Coordinator role etc.).
> - A domain may be configured to automatically assign
> co-ownership status when a Course
> Coordinator role becomes active in an official course, if the
> Coordinator is official
> course personnel (requires customization of localenroll.pm
> <http://localenroll.pm>).
> - Domain Coordinators may delete entries in personal
> information fields (i.e., name,
> permanent e-mail address) if a value has been set previously.
> - Domain Coordinators may allow users to choose (via a User
> Preference) to prevent
> updates to information fields by a nightly automated update
> which synchronizes LON-CAPA
> with institutional directory data.
> - Nightly removal of stale files in /home/httpd/perl/tmp will
> descend into sub-directories
> and also remove stale files from them.
>
> Printing
>
> - Printouts of PDF files within a folder (both in a course and
> in Construction Space)
> can be generated.
> - The default font size in printouts can be set by Course
> Coordinators and
> Authors/Co-authors.
> - Composite pages (.page) can be printed in Construction Space
> and also printed with
> answers.
> - Composite pages (.page) containing numerical problems can be
> printed when set to exam
> mode.
> - Composite pages (.page) can be printed for selected students.
> - The syllabus can be printed when generating printouts of
> resources for selected
> students.
> - Printing of tables has been standardized to use the perl
> LaTeX::Table module.
>
> Localization
>
> - New translations and improvements are provided for both the
> German and Spanish
> interfaces.
> - UTF-8 encoding is used for all browsers (including Internet
> Explorer).
> - The time zone of the local server is cached, and
> translations of phrases are also
> cached to improve performance.
>
> Accessibility
> - An alt attribute (which includes the raw TeX) is supplied
> for use by screen readers
> when MimeTex images are used to render math expressions.
> - Raw mode (will output raw TeX) is available as an additional
> option for rendering
> math expressions.
>
> 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.
> - More muted colors, and standard data table used for
> Roles/Courses screen.
>
> Installation Notes:
>
> To use this release you need to have version 1-18 of
> LONCAPA-prerequisites
> installed.
>
> To install this update:
>
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
> or 12,
> RHEL (AS|ES) 4 or 5, SUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.1 or 11.2, SLES 9, 10
> or 11,
> CentOS 5, or Scientific Linux 5.
> (Fedora Core 5 should continue to work but is deprecated.)
>
> 2) Update LONCAPA-prerequisites to 1-18.
>
> (a) Fedora
> yum update
>
> (b) RedHat Enterprise 4
>
> up2date -u LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> (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
> LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> On all distributions, it is recommended that you check that
> you have
> the correct versions of LONCAPA-prerequisites installed before
> proceeding.
>
> rpm -q LONCAPA-prerequisites
>
> should report:
> LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-18.X
>
> (where X is a distro identifier e.g., fc12.lc <http://fc12.lc>)
>
> 3) Download the new LON-CAPA tarball from
> wget http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/loncapa-2.9.0.tar.gz
>
> and untar it
>
> tar xzvf loncapa-2.9.0.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 10.2,10.3,11.1,11.2/SLES 10,11:
> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
>
>
> 6) Run the UPDATE script as root
> cd loncapa-2.9.0
> 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 10.2,10.3,11.1,11.2/SLES 10,11:
> /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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