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In the notes below [dspace]
refers to the install directory for your existing DSpace installation, and [dspace-1.2.1-source] to the source directory for DSpace 1.2.1. Whenever you see these path references, be sure to replace them with the actual path names on your local system.
The changes in 1.2.1 are only code changes so the update should be fairly simple.
cd [dspace]/lib cp postgresql.jar [dspace-1.2.1-source]/lib
Your 'localized' JSPs (those in jsp/local) now need to be maintained in the source directory. If you have locally modified JSPs in your [dspace]/jsp/local directory, you might like to merge the changes in the new 1.2.1 versions into your locally modified ones. You can use the diff command to compare the 1.2 and 1.2.1 versions to do this. Also see the version history for a list of modified JSPs.
You need to add a few new parameters to your [dspace]/dspace.cfg for browse/search and item thumbnails display, and for configurable DC metadata fields to be indexed.
# whether to display thumbnails on browse and search results pages (1.2+) webui.browse.thumbnail.show = false # max dimensions of the browse/search thumbs. Must be <= thumbnail.maxwidth # and thumbnail.maxheight. Only need to be set if required to be smaller than # dimension of thumbnails generated by mediafilter (1.2+) #webui.browse.thumbnail.maxheight = 80 #webui.browse.thumbnail.maxwidth = 80 # whether to display the thumb against each bitstream (1.2+) webui.item.thumbnail.show = true # where should clicking on a thumbnail from browse/search take the user # Only values currently supported are "item" and "bitstream" #webui.browse.thumbnail.linkbehaviour = item ##### Fields to Index for Search ##### # DC metadata elements.qualifiers to be indexed for search # format: - search.index.[number] = [search field]:element.qualifier # - * used as wildcard ### changing these will change your search results, ### ### but will NOT automatically change your search displays ### search.index.1 = author:contributor.* search.index.2 = author:creator.* search.index.3 = title:title.* search.index.4 = keyword:subject.* search.index.5 = abstract:description.abstract search.index.6 = author:description.statementofresponsibility search.index.7 = series:relation.ispartofseries search.index.8 = abstract:description.tableofcontents search.index.9 = mime:format.mimetype search.index.10 = sponsor:description.sponsorship search.index.11 = id:identifier.*
In [dspace-1.2.1-source] run:
ant -Dconfig= [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg update
Copy the .war Web application files in [dspace-1.2.1-source]/build to the webapps sub-directory of your servlet container (e.g. Tomcat). e.g.:
cp [dspace-1.2.1-source]/build/*.war [tomcat]/webapps
If you're using Tomcat, you need to delete the directories corresponding to the old .war files. For example, if dspace.war is installed in [tomcat]/webapps/dspace.war, you should delete the [tomcat]/webapps/dspace directory. Otherwise, Tomcat will continue to use the old code in that directory.