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

[Axel Braun]

Hi Luis,

 

Am Sonntag, 24. November 2019, 15:51:34 CET schrieb Luis Falcon:

> > 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/

 

I'm entering via https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/health , and this still does not work

> 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 ....

 

OK, thats misleading, as the file from ftp.gnu.org has exactly the same name...but a different content

 

> > > 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.

 

the openSUSE packages come already with a modified gnuhealth-control. Its version is 3.6.2-openSUSE and it points you to 'zypper up'

Cheers

Axel