Created: January 17, 2001
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Last updated: January 9, 2011
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Last updated: February 28, 2011
+cd loncom/build
+
make aboutVERSION
+
+General description of what happens +
++This is the actual make target code. +
+
+
+aboutVERSION:
+ cat $(SOURCE)/loncom/license/about.html | \
+ perl -e '$$d=`date +"%Y%m%d%H"`;chomp($$d);while(<>){s/(\<\!\-\- VERSION \-\-\>|\d+\.\d+\.CVS_HEAD\-\d{10})/$(SHOWVERSION)-$$d/; print;}' > \
+ $(SOURCE)/loncom/license/about.html.new
+ mv -v $(SOURCE)/loncom/license/about.html.new \
+ $(SOURCE)/loncom/license/about.html
+ cat $(SOURCE)/loncom/loncapa_apache.conf | \
+ perl -e '$$d=`date +"%Y%m%d%H"`;chomp($$d);while(<>){s/(\<\!\-\- VERSION \-\-\>|\d+\.\d+\.CVS_HEAD\-\d{10})/$(SHOWVERSION)-$$d/; print;}' > \
+ $(SOURCE)/loncom/loncapa_apache.conf.new
+ mv -v $(SOURCE)/loncom/loncapa_apache.conf.new \
+ $(SOURCE)/loncom/loncapa_apache.conf
+
+
++The LON-CAPA Version number is updated in the following files: +
+Updating the version information in these files means that visitors to the static HTML page: "About LON-CAPA" on your server will see which version of LON-CAPA you are running. The same information is also displayed on the dynamic log-in page generated by lonlogin.pm. Furthermore, the version of LON-CAPA running on your server can determine which course roles may be selectable on that server, if a course contains resource(s) and/or parameter(s) which require a specific version (or newer) of LON-CAPA. It is also possible for Domain Coordinators in another domain to configure their domain to limit hosting of sessions for users from their own domain to LON-CAPA servers in other domains which are running a specific LON-CAPA version (or newer). +
+On a development server, i.e., one where LON-CAPA is built and installed from a CVS checkout, running make aboutVERSION will cause the version number to be set to something of the form: M.N.CVS_HEAD-YYYYMMDDHH, where M.N will be the version number of the next stable (major) release (e.g., if the current stable release is 3.1; the next release would be 3.2), and YYYYMMDDHH is the datestamp when make aboutVERSION was last run. Note: make aboutVERSION will update the about.html and loncapa_apache.conf in the installation directory tree; it is not until make install is run that files served directly by the web server (or used for configuration) are updated with the versions in that tree. +
+Machine-specific information is the difference