[Building Sakai] How to modify K1?

[Lydia Li]

Anthony and Matthew,

    Thanks for the tips!  I'll give it a try!


Lydia



Anthony Whyte wrote:
> Lydia--the Sakai 2.5 series does not bind to the Kernel K1 project and 
> never will.  Sakai core services (e.g., authz, content, userdirectory, 
> etc.) were repackaged as the kernel for Sakai 2.6 and 2.7.  Sakai 
> 2.6.x currently binds to the stable K1 1.0.6 release since it is 
> anticipated that a fair number of schools will choose to run the x 
> branch in production and doing so while binding to SNAPSHOT artifacts 
> of the kernel such as 1.0.7-SNAPSHOT (which can and do get refreshed 
> in the repo) would introduce into your production environment an 
> unacceptable level of code instability with respect to low-level Sakai 
> services.
>
> If you want to make changes to K1 locally, do what Matt suggests.  For 
> 2.6.x check out the latest release or trunk or the 1.0.x branch, 
> although again bear in mind that the latter are regularly updated and 
> that the corresponding repo artifacts also get refreshed.  Depending 
> on what you need to do you can change the <version> and then hack the 
> code.  Then do a
>
> mvn clean install
>
> to populate your local repo (I like to delete 
> .m2/repository/org/sakaiproject/kernel first so that when I perform a 
> Sakai build I can ensure that only one set of kernel dependencies gets 
> deployed).  Finally, make sure the Sakai /master/pom.xml 
> <sakai.kernel.version> property is updated to your new K1 <version>.
>
> Then perform a Sakai build:
>
> mvn clean install sakai:deploy
>
> and test your changes.
>
>
> General info regarding the Kernel can be found here:
>
> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/REL/Kernel+1+(K1)
>
> More specific info relative to issues addressed in each release can be 
> found here:
>
> http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/KNL?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:versions-panel 
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anth
>
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Lydia Li wrote:
>
>> Ray,
>>    Thanks for your quick reply.
>>   A quick question, I checked in my sakai 2.6.x/master/pom.xml and it
>> has <sakai.kernel.version>1.0.7-SNAPSHOT</sakai.kernel.version>
>>   which is the same as the version  specified in my kernel 1.0.x
>> checkout.
>>   Where does it specify sakai 2.5.x using 1.0.6 snapshot?
>>
>>    Sorry if the answer is too obvious... I've been in the 2.4.x world
>> for too long.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Lydia
>>
>>
>> Ray Davis wrote:
>>> Sakai 2.6.x was building against kernel 1.0.6-SNAPSHOT and is now
>>> building against kernel 1.0.6. Meanwhile the kernel-1.0.x branch has
>>> moved on to 1.0.7-SNAPSHOT. So it could be that your customized K1
>>> build is generating different files than your customized Sakai build
>>> is deploying.
>>>
>>> Keeping the two projects in sync locally is a bit of a challenge. I
>>> see we've just gone off the rails here, too....
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Ray
>>>
>>> On 4/30/2009 4:35 PM, Lydia Li wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>     We are starting to work on upgrading our local Sakai 2.4.x to
>>>> 2.6.x here at Stanford.   One thing we have to modify is the
>>>> db-components.xml in kernel to use c3p0 instead of dbcp.  I checked
>>>> out kernel 1.x , modified the file, deleted everything under
>>>> .m2/repository/org/sakaiproject/kernel, then compiled and deployed
>>>> kernel.  I also rebuilt the entire Sakai in a clean tomcat.  I could
>>>> see my changes in
>>>> tomcat/components/sakai-kernel-component/WEB-INF/db-components.xml ,
>>>> but when I started tomcat it kept complaining about not finding the
>>>> expected dbcp properties (such as:  No property 'url' found).   It
>>>> seems to be still looking for the out of the box 1.0.7-SNAPSHOT.jar
>>>> with dbcp somewhere.   I must be missing some other places that I
>>>> needed to modify for my tomcat to pick up my changes.    What else do
>>>> I need to do?     Are there any documentation on how to make local
>>>> modification to K1?    I couldn't find it on Confluence or the
>>>> sakai-kernel google group.
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Lydia
>>>
>>
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