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Hi Everyone,

I’m helping to organise the first OSBootcamp at Oxford University.
These will of course be closely modelled on the OSBootcamps that Andrew
Ross has been staging in Canada and the US.

Much like Andrew, we are hoping to attract interest from the student
community and give them some interesting sessions on topics related to
Opensource and just general bread and butter skills in computing. At the
same time we have no objection to anybody else turning up. There will be
snacks, there will be a door prize!

Just so we can cater for the event all we ask is that you register your
interest at: http://www.osbootcamp.org/

We’d also love to hear from anybody regarding speaking at future events
and to help us sponsor the events.

The agenda for the Oxford Bootcamp is as follows:

Date: 3rd November.

Location. Said Business School, Seminar Room A.

17:30-17:40 – Welcome & OSBOOTCAMP introduction – Andrew Ross (video)
17:45-18:30 – Tearing files apart. – Martin Bowes
18:35-19:20 – vi – What they didn.t tell you in the manuals. – Roy Hann
19:20-19:40 – Food & Drinks
19:40-20:25 – Opensource Licencing – Rowan Wilson
20:25-20:30 – Prizes and wrap up – Mike Flower

Hope to see lots of smiling faces there!

Martin Bowes

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• Common authentication back-end
• SSL for login
• Improved synchronization from Piccolo

Common authentication back-end

From the time the code for the Ingres DBMS server was published in Subversion, the authentication and authorization mechanism was distinct from that of the rest of the Ingres Community. This meant that those with commit access would need to maintain separate accounts. Alex Trofast and Andrew Ross have converted the authentication system for both http://code.ingres.com and http://bugs.ingres.com to use the same system for the wiki and forums.

SSL for login

Previously only the Community Forum and Wiki had SSL (https) logins, now the bugs and code site do as well. For the time being you can access them both in plain-text mode but at some point secure logins will be required. The updated URLs are – https://code.ingres.com and https://bugs.ingres.com. Note that for the time being the sites are signed using a self-signed certificate. This will change in due course but for the time being you may be required to acknowledge that the certificate has not been validated against any of the root Certificate Authorities.

Improved synchronization from Piccolo

Probably the most important out of the 3 changes is the improved sync up between Ingres’s internal source code system, Piccolo and the external Subversion server. Changes are now replicated out every 15 minutes from Piccolo, assuming there is something to propagate. The process for merging changes from Subversion into Piccolo is still being worked on. So now we have up to date Ingres code in the wild, so to speak.

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• Added support for multiple concurrent result-sets
• Added automatic coercion between UTF-8 and UTF-16
• Added support for Bi-directional scrolling cursors
• Added ingres_free_results() – free the memory associated with a given result set
• Added ingres_autocommit_state() – return the current auto-commit state
• Added ingres_next_error() – fetch additional errors if any

If you are feeling brave you can grab the code from cvs.php.net:

cvs co -d somedir pecl/ingres

If you want to run it along side an existing pecl ingres install I would recommend you use the following (ahem, undocumented) configure flag:

./configure --enable-ingres2

Documentation will follow, first with an overhaul of the README(.html) as well as the information on http://php.net/ingres.

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Next month I will be attending the Eclipse Summit in Ludgwigsburg, Germany. The plan at the moment is to take over a PS3 to run Ingres on with another machine acting as a client for the Eclipse DTP Ingres plugin and the Ingres Frequent Flyer demo.

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The following is based on the Non-RPM Build of Ingres 2006 Release 2 beta, downloadable from http://ingres.com/products/Prod_Comm_Download_Form.html.

For some reason, I have yet to work out, Ubuntu have changed /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash, previously it had been linked to /bin/bash. Since dash is supposed to be POSIX compliant there should be no problem however it does not accept the -p argument pass by ingbuild, resulting in an error:

┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ pax failed with exit code                 │
│                                           │
│ /bin/sh: Illegal option -p                │
│                                           │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘

Until the Ingres installer is fixed to allow for dash the only solution is to re-link /bin/sh to point to /bin/bash:

sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.orig
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Should you wish to revert /bin/sh to /bin/dash after the install has completed:

sudo mv /bin/sh.orig /bin/sh

If you are installing the DBMS server the libc6-dev package is needed. Without this the setup scripts will not be able to link iimerge leaving you without a database server. Install using the following command:

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev

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