[Building Sakai] Kernel

Wed Feb 29 04:26:48 PST 2012

Hi Adam,

I have written something down instructions on how I was able to
accomplish, although they are not complete yet they are very close to
being complete. I blogged about it at this URL: http://bit.ly/wwNuwU

I have done this on the local machine and on the test server, but there
were some hiccups that I ran into, but got derailed because I had to
work on something else, but it's definitely something that is going to
be a finished product. 

Nguni

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 08:38 +0000, Adam Marshall wrote:
> your initiative sounds interesting, do you have anything written down? We're just about to look at something like this.
> 
> adam
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> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Nonkululeko Phakela [Nonkululeko.Phakela at wits.ac.za]
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> To: Jihane Najdi
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Kernel
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a skin manager that displays different skins for different faculties. I had to get a checkout of kernel so that I can modify one or two things and using the suggestions you have made I have been able to get some work done. I have made some headway. The one thing I was missing was deleting the old kernel jar files from shared/lib.
> 
> Thank you!
> Nguni
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> Sent from my iPhone 4
> 
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 16:27, "Jihane Najdi" <jnajdi at exchange.vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Another thing to keep in mind is that certain indie tools (i.e.entiybroker) use purepoms as a parent.  purepoms also has a reference to kernel under sakai-basic-tool/pom.xml. If you don't have a customized  local purepoms,  certain indie tools will pulling a different kernel version.
> >
> > So if you decided to change the version of kernel (i.e. 1.2.6.vt), you need to make sure you have a local purepoms which is pointing to the new kernel version, and consequently your indie tools will have to point to your local purepoms .  The other option is to have a local instance of kernel but not change its version. This option however, will make it difficult to verify which version you are pulling, your local kernel or community kernel.
> >
> > Here at Virginia Tech, we went with the first option where we have a local version of kernel and purepoms.
> >
> > Hope this help,
> > JIhane
> >
> >
> > On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:32 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Nguni,
> >>
> >> kernel-deploy just deploys the kernel artifacts, as you have specified in the master/pom.xml
> >>
> >> So you are just about there, you just need to clean out the old sakai-kernel-* jars from shared/lib, then start Tomcat and it should use the new version.
> >>
> >> Note that most wars include a specific version of the  sakai-kernel util jar so any static classes in there won't be using the new version (since the old jar is bundled). This may not be an issue, depending on your reason for the new kernel.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >> On 27/02/2012, at 8:37 PM, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to run kernel 1.2.6, the one that I checked out and have it
> >>> build and be the one that is used by Sakai.
> >>>
> >>> I have changed the version in master/pom.xml and I have also done a
> >>> build of master and sakai_src.
> >>>
> >>> Do I need to do something with kernel-deploy folder?
> >>>
> >>> I would appreciate any help.
> >>>
> >>> Kind Regards,
> >>> Nguni
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