Installing the svn and test versions of Freevo 1

The idea is that you can install the subversion of Freevo release 1 branch without breaking your current installation. Installing the subversion helps development by reporting bugs against the latest version no point in reporting fixed bugs and it helps test the next release.

• Checkout and install the kaa modules (Kaa is a collection of Python modules that Freevo depends on):

for module in base imlib2 display metadata; do    
    git clone git://github.com/freevo/kaa-$module.git    
    pushd $module
    python setup.py install --prefix=~/freevo-test
    popd 
done 

• You can remove --prefix=~/freevo-test if you want this to be a system-wide install.

• Get the freevo-1 branch from subversion

git clone git://github.com/freevo/freevo1.git 

• Update the svn revision number module and the translations.

./autogen.sh nodocs 

• Install freevo into the test directory

python setup.py install --prefix=~/freevo-test 

• Change into the newly installed freevo directory

cd ~/freevo-test 

• Copy your existing freevo configuration files to the current directory, this allows you to play with the options before messing up your existing configuration

cp -pv /etc/freevo/* ~/freevo-test 

• Find the version of Python that is being used

version=$(python -V 2>&1 | sed -n 's/Python \(.\..\).*/\1/p') 

• Export the installation path so that freevo picks up the modules from there and not a current installation, this depends on the version of Python that is installed

export PYTHONPATH=~/freevo-test/lib/python${version}/site-packages 

• Update the local_conf.py for the new version with the command and update its version number

./bin/freevo convert_config ~/freevo-test/local_conf.py 

• Lets go!

./bin/freevo 

• Check the log messages for configuration warnings and fix them in the ~/freevo-test/local_conf.py

Updating

Easy as 123...

cd /to/svn/source/directory 
git pull 
rm -rf build/* ./autogen.sh nodocs 
python setup.py install --prefix=~/freevo-test