Re: [Koha-devel] rebuild_zebra_idx.pl

[Joshua Ferraro]

On 11/12/07, Galen Charlton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/12/07, Paul POULAIN <address@hidden> wrote:
> > i've seen a fix on rebuil_zebra_idx.pl
> >
> > In fact, last week I was about to remove it, as it's replaced by
> > rebuild_zebra.pl that does much more things :
> > 1- create zebra files *if needed* (ie : they don't exist already)
> > 2- export datas biblio & authority (or only one)
> > 3- run zebraidx
> > 4- keep the export for a future use.
> >
> > where rebuild_zebra_idx does only the export for biblios.
>
> After looking at the two, I would agree that rebuild_zebra_idx is
> redundant, but only after rebuild_zebra is tweaked so that it has an
> option to *only* export the bibs or authorities.
I guess from my POV, I don't know what the purpose of rebuild_zebra.idx
is. It seems like a helper script for a non-standard installation, not the
kind of utility you'd normally run. The Makefile installer should be all we
need to install the zebra components of Koha.

I'm in favor of a light-weight script that does export/index of records
like we have in dev_week with update_items.pl. It's always useful to
be able to just re-index the whole dataset. That's what I thought
rebuild_zerba_idx.pl was the start of.

Cheers,

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