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The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Ant targets should be run as the service user
A word of warning: in order to ensure proper permissions and file ownership are maintained, you are advised to run these ant targets as the service user (commonly 'dspace' or 'tomcat'). Running them as any other user may cause permission problems
Options
DSpace allows three property values to be set using the -D<property>=<value> option. They may be used in other contexts than noted below, but take care to understand how a particular property will affect a target's outcome.
overwrite
| Whether to overwrite configuration files in [dspace]/config. If true, files from [dspace]/config and subdirectories are backed up with .old extension and new files are installed from [dspace-src]/dspace/config and subdirectories; if false, existing config files are untouched, and new files are written beside them with .new extension. | |
| Possible values: | true, false |
| Default: | true |
| Context: | update, init_configs |
config
| If a path is specified, ant uses values from the specified file and installs it in [dspace]/config in the appropriate contexts. | |
| Possible values: | path to configuration file to be used |
| Default: | [dspace-src]/config/dspace.cfg |
| Context: | update, update_configs, update_code, update_webapps, init_configs, fresh_install, test_database, setup_database, load_registries, clean_database |
wars
| If true, builds .war files; if false, no .war files are built. | |
| Possible values: | true, false |
| Default: | true |
| Context: | update, update_webapps, fresh_install |
Targets
| Target | Effect |
|---|---|
| update | Creates backup copies of the [dspace]/bin, /etc, /lib, and /webapps directories with the form /<directory>.bak-<date-time>. Creates new copies of [dspace]/config, /etc, and /lib directories. Does not affect data files or the database. (See overwrite, config, war options.) |
| update_configs | Updates the [dspace]/config directory with new configuration files. (See config option.) |
| update_code | Creates backup copies of the [dspace]/bin, /etc, and /lib directories with the form /<directory>.bak-<date-time>. Creates new copies of [dspace]/config, /etc, and /lib directories. (See config option.) |
| update_webapps | Updates [dspace]/webapps directory. (See config, war options.) |
| init_configs | Writes configuration files to [dspace]/config. (See overwrite, config options.) |
| install_code | Deletes existing [dspace]/bin, /lib, and /etc directories, and installs new copies; overwrites /solr application files, leaving data intact. (See config option.) |
| fresh_install | Performs a fresh installation of the software, including the database & config. (See config, war options.) |
| test_database | Tests database connection using parameters specified in dspace.cfg. (See config option.) |
| clean_backups | Removes [dspace]/bin, /etc, /lib, and /webapps directories with .bak* extensions. |
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