[Building Sakai] Which OS for 2.7 Install? ( was Re: 2.7 Install)

[Warwick Chapman]

Thanks Steve.  For now, I will try installing Squeeze and see how stable it
is, otherwise I'll fetch Maven and do what you've suggested.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry, typo.
>
> I use 2.2.1, and there are no problems building Sakai with it. And there
> are no reasons not to use it. You can stick with an older version if it
> works for you, but it also works fine with 2.2.1.
>
> But you certainly don't need to install a new operating system just to
> upgrade Maven. Grab the updated package, unpack it somewhere and point your
> PATH environment variable to it. And since Sakai 2.7 and up requires at
> least Maven 2.0.10, thats what you'll need to do. You could edit the
> master/pom.xml and change the value, but it's up to you.
>
> Steve.
>
>
> On 18/03/2010, at 5:16 PM, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>
> That's three negatives in one sentence: "There is no real reason not to be
> using a version of Maven lower than 2.2.1." I actually had to pull out a
> paper and a pen to work out what it simplifies to and I've arrived at two
> choices:
> 1. "no real reason not to be using" = you can use a version lower than
> 2.2.1
> 2. "no real reason" = "should not" = you should not not be using a version
> lower than 2.2.1
>
> I'm confused.
>
> But I assume you're telling me there is no reason to use anything older
> than 2.2.1 in which case it seems I will need to install another OS.  I
> don't want to be installing source or binary packages from apache here
> because since I am building this from ground up and since I am a well
> schooled (read "indocrinated") Debian sysadmin, I prefer not to introduce
> any third-parties to my ecosystem.
>
> Thus, I'd like to ask those who are testing 2.7 which Linux OS you use to
> test it on?  If you're testing on OSX or Windows, no need to respond.
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Steve Swinsburg <
> steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is no real reason not to be using a version of Maven lower than
>> 2.2.1. 2.0.10 is over a year old and the 2.0 series is only recommended for
>> projects that need to run on JDK 1.4. As time goes on, Sakai will no doubt
>> be moving forward with Maven version. I've been using 2.2.1 for the past 6
>> months for Sakai 2.5 and up.
>>
>> It's very simple to upgrade, heres a guide for OS X:
>> http://steve-on-sakai.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-maven-on-mac-os-x.html
>>
>> Will be very similar for Linux.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18/03/2010, at 6:37 AM, Warwick Chapman wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so first stumbling stone:
>>
>> [INFO] Unable to build project '/root/sakai-2.7.x/master/pom.xml; it
>> requires Maven version 2.0.10
>>
>> I have Maven 2.0.9 installed in Lenny.  Is anyone else using Lenny OS for
>> deployment?
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Warwick Chapman <
>> warwickchapman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, and using Java 6.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Warwick Chapman <
>>> warwickchapman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> I am doing my first ever install of Sakai, intended to be used by a
>>>> community of 3000-5000 people.
>>>>
>>>> I have prepared a server with 8G RAM and 750G drives with two Xen VMs.
>>>>
>>>> One the first VM, I intend running the application stack and on the
>>>> second VM, the database.  The intention here is that if the project grows
>>>> beyond the capability of this piece of hardware, I will move one of the VMs
>>>> onto another server.
>>>>
>>>> In case it matters, Dom0 is 64-bit Centos 5.4 and the two DomU's (VMs)
>>>> are 64-bit Debian Lenny 5.0.4
>>>>
>>>> So, I plan to follow
>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Install+Guide+-+Source+Install+(2.6)with the following adjustments for 2.7:
>>>>
>>>> 1. I will checkout the 2.7.x branch instead of the latest 2.6 stable
>>>> tag:
>>>> svn co https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/branches/sakai-2.7.x/sakai-2.7.x
>>>>
>>>> 2. I will set my JAVA_OPTS to:
>>>> export JAVA_OPTS='-server -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=128m
>>>> -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:NewSize=192m -XX:MaxNewSize=384m -verbose:gc
>>>> -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Djava.awt.headless=true
>>>> -Dhttp.agent=Sakai -Dsakai.demo=true
>>>> -Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false
>>>> -Dsun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax=true'
>>>>
>>>> (Anthony suggests I do not need Strict Quote Escaping, is it safe to
>>>> leave it in there since it appears it will be required going forward)
>>>>
>>>> 3. <insert your adjustment here>
>>>>
>>>> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | 083 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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