[daisy] daisy 2.0 installation notes

[Wim Van Acker]

Hi,

Let me share some notes & thoughts about the installation of 2.0 and
upgrade from 1.5. In general : went good, fine result, used the Tanuki 
service scripts to start and stop Daisy.

Many thanks to the developers & the community.

In the upgrade process I noticed some things. Hopefully not already on
the list (have done a quick search).

1)

I think that the upgrade instructions (1.5 to 2.0) don't mention the
addition of some new image configuration tags in myconfig.xml like :

        <!-- Should images be rotated automatically based on exif
metadata? -->
        <automaticRotationEnabled>true</automaticRotationEnabled>
        <!-- Quality setting for generated jpeg's (the thumbnails and
the original image in case of exif-based image rotation).
             The value should be a float between 0 (lowest quality) and
1 (best quality). -->
        <jpegQuality>.85</jpegQuality>

2)

With respect to the file daisy.xconf file, it seems that the value of
the attributes of the tag <cacheUser> has changed between 1.5 and 2.0
but it isn't mentioned in the upgrade instructions.

Browsing in the svn repository I find the cacheUser element in revision
2934 of the file daisy.xconf (in BRANCH_1_5_X) is looking as the
following : <cacheUser login="internal" password="defaultpwd"/>.

But in the trunk repository I find that the attributes of the cacheUser
element have changed to "guest" ... via a diff between version 2893 and
3111. Could it be that the upgrade instruction missed this one because
of the branching? I suppose it should be guest? In my 1.5.1 installation
the cacheUser was still "internal".

3)

In the upgrade instructions one is asked to create a workflow user in
the 1.5 system and remember the user/password. Later on one should enter
the correct password in the myconfig.xml file in the workflowUser tag.
However, I was in the impression that passwords were encrypted so how do
I get the encrypted version of my plain-text password?

4)

Because of the above remark I wandered what would happen if I changed
the password of the workflow user via the Daisy administration pages. Of
course being logged in as another administrator. Would the password in
the myconfig.xml also be changed? Well ... don't think so, because my
repository won't start anymore ... good thing I made a quick backup just
before that.

Would like to hear your thoughts on these points.

Best Regards,
Wim



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