I got mwdumper to work, but IMHO it still a very broken utility. I worked on it for some time and discovered the voodoo sequence on Linux to get it working. I went ahead and was bold and updated the meta pages with some useful advice for others who run into these problems. As I previously suggested, I think it would be a good idea to improve the quality of these tools since they do not work properly with released MediaWiki Distributions and published XML dumps provide from Wikipedia with A LOT of work and debugging.
I have updated meta here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
Jeff
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:46 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
I think it would be a good idea to improve the quality of these tools since they do not work properly with released MediaWiki Distributions and published XML dumps provide from Wikipedia with A LOT of work and debugging.
Will we be seeing your patches soon to address these "flaws" that you see, so they can be independently tested?
I have a few very small patches to mwdumper that have improved things quite a bit for me (adding table prefixes at import time, correcting the table import syntax to increase throughput, etc.).
David A. Desrosiers wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:46 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
I think it would be a good idea to improve the quality of these tools since they do not work properly with released MediaWiki Distributions and published XML dumps provide from Wikipedia with A LOT of work and debugging.
Will we be seeing your patches soon to address these "flaws" that you see, so they can be independently tested?
I have a few very small patches to mwdumper that have improved things quite a bit for me (adding table prefixes at import time, correcting the table import syntax to increase throughput, etc.).
The information you just posted to meta is wrong for Fedora Core 5. If you have experience with Ubutnu and these other distros and wish to share it, that's great, please do not remove or revert the sections which apply to OS's you have not tested. Thanks.
jeff
The information you just posted to meta is wrong for Fedora Core 5. If you have experience with Ubutnu and these other distros and wish to share it, that's great, please do not remove or revert the sections which apply to OS's you have not tested. Thanks.
Have you filed these grave bugs with broken MySQL, Java and PHP packages with the Fedora bugtracking facilities? The instructions I provided are OS independent. I've only verified them on 5 separate boxes and 3 OS'.
If you wish, I can install FC5 and FC6 independently on separate boxes to validate your assertions here, but I seriously expect you're going to be wrong.
In either case, I see two possible outcomes:
1. You're doing something wrong, and blaming the distribution for it
2. There are critical bugs in core packages shipped with Fedora that need to be reported and fixed, ASAP.
So let's identify which one it is, and address it.
On 28/02/07, David A. Desrosiers [email protected] wrote:
In either case, I see two possible outcomes: 1. You're doing something wrong, and blaming the distribution for it
Jeff is a technically competent user, so if he's getting results like this then there's probably room for improvement in the instructions at least.
(I remember rewriting large chunks of the FreeBSD install procedure just based on installing 1.4.0 on my home box ... there's *always* little quirks and they're worth noting.)
- d.