Thinking of upgrading to 2.4.3 but I just got the 2.4.2 installed and
configured recently. The geonetwork-opensource.org with some possible
tutorials is not responding. Help does not tell much about updating. Can I
just run the installer and it detects at least some settings?
It has been said that open source updating and bug fixing can be done very
quickly and efficiently (Seifert 2010), but we do not know yet how it’s done
so. About updating the GeoNetwork application itself into a new version
without destroying our tailorings made: some thoughts, mostly guessing:
· Database / Data path is separate, because we have PostgreSQL as the
DBMS, and the database could remain as it is…? This might make things
easier, giving no reason to export and import?
· Otherwise, probably there is the need to login as Admin to the GN in
the server, and export with GAST all the data (not only those visible
publicly) in MEF format. Typically, do not skip UUID. See the met problems
described below.
· Take certain installed and modified files (xml, conf etc.) elsewhere
as a backup
· Uninstall the old GN version here or later?
· Install the new GN version
· Modify the same things as had been done for the mentioned files, in
order to e.g. define Tomcat as the web server and PostgreSQL as the DBMS.
Define the database connection using GAST.
· Re-do the other tailorings like the logo file name etc.
· Import with the new version’s GAST the MEF data in the new
One way is not to download and install the whole new version, but just the
changed components. The newest code changes can be seen at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork/. They can be added
incrementally, if there is the compiler installed.
About exporting the data with GAST, the application is asking for the Site
ID, but does not allow you to define it correctly. On the other hand, we
have no connections to other sites, and merely that site should be enough,
if I knew how to refer to it. It just shows *dummy*, *???* and an empty
option. I was logged in as Administrator with the remote connection, using
GAST from the server. The Simple format worked for 5 out of 10, and for Full
the output folder becomes empty due to “Operation not allowed” error. Any of
the File identifiers of the 10 items visible when searching GN from the
client PC as admin do not match with the created MEF file names. No search
words were used, therefore all data ought to be as output. I'm getting
stuck.
Arto
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Markus Seifert. Open Source Software in daily Bavarian cadastral work –
Practical experience (4604). FIG Congress 2010. TS 4A - Open-Source Software
Solutions in Cadastre. http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/techprog.htm