<waves> Hi!
Very nice. I'd be interested in those patches. I remember having lots of webadmin issues that *I* couldn't figure out. I don't even recall the last time I tried bionic, but it is the last place I remember having access to the old ruby 1.8.
A lot changed from trusty to xenial it seemed like everything was broken. What was working on bionic stopped after I did a rebuild and new install because the php location changed again. It's difficult to keep up with it. LTS? Wow.
The main problem with the panel not working apart from mysql were php upgrades. Seeing errors in apache logs regarding HTML_Template_IT and adodb, which are included in the lmce-admin sources. I tried updating those to later versions from upstream which fixed a lot of the problems including web orbiter. I looked through the apache logs again and found some more errors and tried porting those as well. Still some to do for the later php on bionic but most of the pages for basic settings that I try seem to function.
I've yet to find out if the media and automation functionality works or try on real hardware, my process was going through the buildscripts replacements from the last ubuntu release looking to see if the package was available in the distro or trying to find the deb sources if they were needed. I had a long break from this until I found the qemu image and starting playing around again with rebuilt hardware.
Haven't tried running later distributions than bionic yet, maybe it is possible if those packages still build but not getting my hopes up for that. At least I have a better idea about where to look for mysql and php problems but detection should be a little better with the patches.
Ruby is what all all the GSD (generic serial devices) use to interact/communicate with lmce. Receivers, TVs, thermostats through serial, ethernet, wifi. A large chunk of communicating with other hardware is in GSD. Porting to the new Ruby is not a simple task, if it's even possible.
Thanks for the explanation, hitting a wall here
I got a ruby1.8 replacement building and tcl package stolen from previous ubuntu release which I thought was a dep of ruby but I'm not sure if it's used, only for the package tests to complete. Anyway, it builds and it's there in a local branch.
Are these patches in the lmce git somewhere? Can you link to them for me so I don't have to hunt around for them? (It's been a while since I have checked out any other patches but my own)
I posted what I thought was useful at the time up on gitlab userspace but this is old and outdated now;
https://git.linuxmce.org/Gavlee/linuxmce/-/branches?state=all&sort=updated_descI have a few other branches from experiments that I have not pushed yet, uncommitted hacks I need to separate into branches so I can possibly send a pull request. Some of those locally stored branches are probably ready to merge as is, like the ruby patch, some for the php changes etc but this was broken when I built again on bionic, so I have a hack for php detection in the deb package which is not committed locally yet. Some other updates for pthsem and lirc if they are needed also, I had some problems building these packages so tried "fixing" them but in the end found some other workarounds. Most of the patches are in feature or bug topic branches checked out from master and then cherry picked all the commits into a branch for building, as you can probably see from the latest branch name. Some commits/branches I left out afterwards for testing if they weren't needed. I'll push more of what I have of this shortly.
minus php detection and the sql stuff in postinst scripts which I am about to redo this is most of the changes for lmce-admin;
https://git.linuxmce.org/Gavlee/linuxmce/-/commit/52337a08b745c8fcbfd6670741c577223c8fec9dhttps://git.linuxmce.org/Gavlee/linuxmce/-/commit/84de9d47d3cc2843956fe7a9b42dd33cfe9dd01b?w=1https://git.linuxmce.org/Gavlee/linuxmce/-/commit/5f3beb896e6485cc80463e721e33f36a7b7209eahttps://git.linuxmce.org/Gavlee/linuxmce/-/commit/c77d8d0f860e2c991032edb93dba48354d016b95Are there upstream changes in their git repository or are these changes you made? We have a snapshot of the upstream build... form whenever I last updated them in our repo, lol.
I was never able to successfully achieve this. Very nice.
Both. For lms I need to clone the included submodule and submit the changes there. I did something last time and wiped it lol it's basically just upstream but with the debian dir modified for the newer version.
For ruby I made a branch on my local linuxmce repo and merged the latest changes from upstream brightbox on github. Then made a couple commits on top to try and get it building for bionic (see tcl, and to disable bugged? tests). This is a pretty big patch because of tcl seeing as it's only used for test?
Thanks again, and for the guidance.
lol, I wouldn't! 
You'd definitely want to do some intense testing in a parallel boot and be able to revert to your 1404 install if necessary. I'm still running 1404 in my house but mostly doing lighting control these days.
Heheh.
I think if I can keep/get mythtv and zwave working and not have to reboot too much there will be no complaints here
asterisk crashed too much on xenial to even attempt that but bionic looks like a better candidate to upgrade to.
Our git isn't setup to do auto builds. If we can get patches applied to our repo that work then we *may* be able to get bionic debs updated.
I still have VM build servers here for 1204 through 1604 and I have a 2204 builder as well... although I got to a point that I decided without ruby I wouldn't be able to achieve much and backed off. I *think* fluffy is still alive and if I can get a build working we might be able to kick a build over there.
There were big changes to mysql that broke our sqlcvs system pretty majorly. I got it working with credentials but no anonymous submissions can be approved and added. If you have the specifics I should be able to make that update.
The database files for the builder are dumped from the live sqlcvs server. As we don't have anything replacing in the search and replace functions the prepfiles aren't really a thing per se... What's the issue with mysql on bionic? If there are extra, or missing, dependences for install send me the specific details and I'll see about getting them updated.
Ah, ok. I was looking in the gitlab yaml file thinking it would be possible, having wrote most of the scripts for a packer image they could probably be reused. It's long and complex build. I'm glad I ask first
Maybe there is a configration problem on my firewall blocking sqlcvs, I'm sure I added rules for that. Will check again.
For me to do is tidying up the branches I was working on and commit the changes for php detection, in preparation for possible pull request.
It's probably best if I start with mysql/asterisk/php because it's all related and there is no lmce-admin panel on >=xenial unless that's fixed. I'll redo it into another branch and do a test on trusty with it first though. Sound ok?
PS. UI2 works in qemu with virgl,
the flickr screensaver isn't showing pictures though. hmmm
Keep having fun!
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