Re: [Health-dev] [Health-announce] GNU Health patchset 3.6.2 released

[Luis Falcon]

Just to clarify...

gnuhealth-control works perfectly on openSUSE standard installation (as
described in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health/Installation )

Here we are discussing about the *packages* provided by distros.

Best
Luis

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 14:51:34 +0000
Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Axel !
> 
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:06:09 +0100
> Axel Braun <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Luis,
> > 
> > Am Samstag, 23. November 2019, 18:36:35 CET schrieb Luis Falcon:  
> > > (main article at
> > > https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9603)  
> > 
> > Savannah seems to be unavailable at the moment
> >   
> 
> It seems to be OK now: Check
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/
> 
> Nevertheless, I am also mirroring the files both gnuhealth.org  and in
> Sourceforge 
> 
> > > Dear community
> > >
> > > GNU Health 3.6.2 patchset has been released !  
> > 
> > the current tarball on pypi.io seems to be broken: It has only 770k
> > and basically no modules inside.  
> 
> The file is OK, but remember that "gnuhealth" is just the health
> package, that is why it's only 770K. Just did an installation and
> worked fine. (pip3 install --user gnuhealth)
> 
> The rest of the packages are also there gnuhealth_archives,
> gnuhealth_gyneco ....
> 
> > > The GNU Health control center works on standard installations
> > > (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks).
> > > Don't use it if you use an alternative method or if your
> > > distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.
> > >  
> > 
> > Can we agree on a slightly different wording here?
> > 
> > The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those
> > done from source files as described on wikibooks).
> > Don't use it if you use the packages provided by your
> > Linux-Distribution. Here the system takes care about patches.  
> 
> You should customize gnuhealth-control so it works on openSUSE, either
> by calling internally zypper in or whatever you deem appropriate to
> achieve the same task as "gnuhealth-control update". That way we get
> close to the ideal 1-1 relationship on the standard and the openSUSE
> package.
> 
> I think you already have done something like that already to adapt
> gnuhealth-control getlang.
> 
> Moreover, I have to know *exactly* which system distribution. In
> this case, it would be openSUSE. I can not talk for any others until
> they have been verified.
> 
> 
> > I have applied the patch to the openSUSE packages of release 3.6.1,
> > so it has the same patch level as the 3.6.2 release.   
> 
> Excellent ! Thanks Axel !
> 
> All the best,