Package: mediawiki1.7 Version: 1.7.1-3 Severity: normal This is actually a bug in mediawiki1.5, but it persists in 1.7 (at least in its documentation).
In README.Debian.gz, the upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5, step 4 - 6. We are instructed to copy LocalSettings.php to /var/lib/mediawiki1.5. Due to a preexisting symlink this file ends up in /etc/mediawiki1.5. When executing maintenance/update.php, it does not find LocalSettings.php: debian:/var/lib/mediawiki1.5# php maintenance/update.php A copy of your installation's LocalSettings.php must exist in the source directory. This is because debian:/var/lib/mediawiki1.5# ls -l maintenance lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2006-10-31 16:24 maintenance -> /usr/share/mediawiki1.5/maintenance and therefore update.php looks for LocalSettings.php in /usr/share/mediawiki1.5, not /var/lib/mediawiki1.5. After copying to /var/lib/mediawiki1.5, I get the same error as I reported before, that Setup.php cannot be found, because the include path is /var/lib/mediawiki/* etc. This should at least be /var/lib/mediawiki1.5, but propably even /usr/share/mediawiki1.5. There seems to be a solid confusion about directory names, at least on my system. Best regards, Bastiaan. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages mediawiki1.7 depends on: ii apache2 2.2.3-2 Next generation, scalable, extenda ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.0.55-4.1 traditional model for Apache2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.6 Debian configuration management sy ii mime-support 3.37-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii php5 5.1.6-4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php5-cli 5.1.6-4 command-line interpreter for the p ii php5-mysql 5.1.6-4 MySQL module for php5 Versions of packages mediawiki1.7 recommends: ii mysql-server 5.0.24a-9 mysql database server (current ver ii mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.24a-9 mysql database server binaries -- debconf information: mediawiki/webserver: apache2 mediawiki/upgrade-1d5: true * mediawiki/upgrade-1d4: mediawiki/upgrade-1d5-adminuser: root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
