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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,
Right now, there are two versions. The IZPack installer uses the
native windows MSI. The user has to install this by themselves.
The MSI handles the creation of the Postgres user, and the
installation of the service. This should really be done as a silent
install, but I did not figure out how to do this quite yet.

I started as well on the BitRock variant, which is also in that
branch. It will install the H2 DB by default. Knut has provided a lot
of examples of BitRock installers using Postgres, but I have not
looked at them yet.

Ideally, we should just have a single installer, and BitRock
(especially since we got the license from them) seems to be great. I
have not really figured out yet though how to get it to install
Postgres, but I am sure it is possible.

Basically, we need create a BitRock installer that installs postgres.
A batch file could then be used to load a sample DB. Knut has already
done this in some of the older installers he created, so it should be
pretty simple. I suppose this could also be done with IZpack, in a
similar manner. The problem is that we need to be able to control the
postgres user name and password, in order to populate the DB with the
sample database.

As for the BitRock installer, we can simple package the sample DB
along with the installer, and ask the user if they want to install it
or not. If they do, it will get copied to the /database folder,
otherwise, we will leave it empty.

Regards,
jason



2010/2/18 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Jason Pickering
> <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Devs,
>> It has been a long day and I have a large cliff to climb, but I wanted
>> to share this with you.
>>
>> Further to my previous mails, I have constructed two installers for
>> the DHIS2 live package, using the H2 database (and also postgresql).
>>
>> They are two variants available from here
>>
>> bzr branch lp:~jason-p-pickering/+junk/dhis2-live-installer
>>
>> The install.xml file is an IZPack configuration file. A a further
>> variation of the IZPack file  (rev 3) will do a Postgresql install.
>> You will need IZPack to compile and make the installer jar.
>>
>> With the latest revision, I have included a the DHIS2.xml file, which
>> is a BitRock installer file.
>>
>> Read the INSTALLER-README.txt file for more info of how to get these to
>> work.
>>
>>  I have made these two variants, because IZPack gave problems on
>> Vista. I have not yet tested the BitRock variant  on Vista, but if
>> anyone has this operating system, and would be willing to test it, I
>> can help with how to build the package. Installs on XP are no problem.
>> Mac, Linux and other platforms are yet untested.
>>
>> If you need a BitRock license, let me know. I got one for DHIS2 project.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>
>
> Thanks a lot for contributing this. An installer that includes Postgres will
> be very valuable.
>
> I'm curious how the installer deal with installing Postgres. Is it using the
> Windows binary distribution? Is it starting Postgres manually everytime the
> application starts or is it installed as a service? Can we include an empty
> or sample DHIS database in the distribution?
> Lars
>