Alfresco Community Package

[John Pugh]

On 08/20/2009 10:42 AM, Josh McJilton wrote:
> Server Team / Alfresco Packager,
> 
> Let me get right to the point; thank you!  The recently released
> alfresco-community package is a huge help.  Over the past few months
> I’ve been experimenting with Alfresco 3.1 and the new 3.2 Community
> Edition quite a bit.  I’ve installed the stack more times than I can
> remember, but until the Ubuntu package hit the Partner repository, my
> efforts to install on Linux always wound up at a dead end.  At that
> point a time sensitive question would come up and I would have to boot
> into the that other OS and run it over there.  I’m glad to say that is
> no longer the case.
Awesome. Glad to see that it helps!
> 
> I’ve collected several small notes that I’ll post via Launchpad, but I
> wanted to a quick second to let you know I’m having great success with
> the package.  So far converted two of our company servers of to Ubuntu
> on the merits of a quick, predictable server build out and I’m confident
> more will follow.
Please do post any issues or comments you find. We will pass them along
and are interested to read your comments!
> 
> I am receiving one warning each time I install the package that I did
> want to pass along directly:
> 
> dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/alfresco.conf
> *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
>             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
>             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
>             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
>             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

I am told that is apparently something introduced in a recent version of
dbconfig-common. It is simply a warning and can safely be ignored for now.
> 
> The package installs fine and everything seems to work, but I do see
> this every time so I wanted to pass it along. 
> 
> Please let me know if there are any other details I could provide that
> would be helpful.  Thanks again and keep up the great work.
> 
I'm sure there are others that would like to hear your experiences. You
are welcome to send them to me offline if that is more appropriate.

JP