[SoaS] IRC.activity in soas-3-20100319 a working fix as it will not start as shipped

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Mel;

#1851 filed

Thanks

Tom Gilliard
satellit

Mel Chua wrote:
> Thanks for the report, Tom - I'm a bit swamped with work at the moment 
> but will be trying to set aside time for IRC Activity maintenance 
> (long overdue, heh) sometime this weekend when I get through my 
> $dayjob backlog.
>
> Could you do me a favor and put this in Trac on 
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org? (Mark the component as "Irc"). That way 
> it'll pop up on my list when I sit down to fix the Activity. I can't 
> promise that I'll be able to get to this and fix it, but I'll be 
> giving those tickets a shot at some point soon.
>
> Keeping the SoaS list in Cc here because I'm not sure whether this is 
> a SoaS bug or an IRC.activity bug or some 
> compatibility-between-the-two thing, and we need to figure out a good 
> workflow between Activity tickets and SoaS tickets when they intersect 
> like this.
>
> --Mel
>
> On 03/20/2010 05:00 AM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
>> the IRC.activity that is preloaded in  soas-3-20100319 will not start.
>> Did a DL from aslo but it still failed.
>>
>> I went to /usr/share/sugar/activities and did a rm -R IRC.activity and
>> removed all files and the directory.
>>
>> Then I repeated the DL from aslo version 5.xo and started it fine.
>>
>> *(I noticed that the preloaded activity is marked version 6, could this
>> be preventing the download from working?)
>>
>> In short: If IRC is not included in the ks file it should work as a
>> download.
>>
>> Tom Gilliard
>> satellit
>
>