[Building Sakai] problem with blackboard import

[Maurer, Christopher Wayne]

We saw some similar issues here at IU when deploying profile2 since we
have customizations in profile (1) and possibly also common.  I had to
modify the versions of things in profile2 so it wouldn't overwrite with
generic versions.

Chris

On 8/7/12 10:29 AM, "Charles Hedrick" <hedrick at rutgers.edu> wrote:

>My apologizes. This was intended for the internal Rutgers dev list.
>However it's a problem that could show up elsewhere as well.
>
>On Aug 7, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
>> Blackboard import is broken in 2.9. I'll be deploying a fix shortly.
>>But I wanted to explain the issue.
>> 
>> This was a mess to find. The user error was that the ZIP file isn't
>>recognized. The archive input code calls a list of importers, asking
>>each whether it recognizes the file. I added code to the bb6 importer to
>>display some information. It was never called.
>> 
>> That means that something is broken in the XML structure that
>>configures the list of importers. The components.xml was just fine.
>>However at some point I thought to look at the version of the file
>>actually in production. The file in production doesn't match the file in
>>the source tree.
>> 
>> This took a long time to find, but in the end it turned out to be a
>>problem in profile2. Finding it required searching pom files for all
>>kinds of things. Profile2 has a subproject deploy. It's sole purpose in
>>life is to deploy incorrect versions of two parts of common. Thus it was
>>overwriting the version of common we built, which included the
>>components.xml with bb6 import added, with the generic one from a
>>different beta. (The problem would have been prevented had profile2's
>>main pom file had the correct primary sakai version number. It was set
>>to b05, while we're using b02. Hence it pulled in generic files rather
>>than pulling ones we built from the local .m2 directory. But deleting
>>core components and deploying its own version is REALLY bad form.)
>> 
>> The fix I'm trying, which I think will work, is to comment out the
>>deploy subproject in the main pom file for profile2. The actually bb
>>import code seems fine.
>> 
>
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