Question

Why do I get these errors below?

(I looked at the CommentPlugin_installer.pl code, and it appears to unconditionally spew these errors--why is that?)

Must I actually perform the actions described in the error output, and if so why? What must I do when I make these edits--store the history?

I'm confused as to why this plugin installation seems as complex as it is. Are they all this way?

-- MattEngland - 15 Apr 2005

root@biz2tek 11:01pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 60> perl CommentPlugin_installer.pl install

### CommentPlugin Installer ###

This installer must be run from the root directory of your TWiki
installation.
        * The script will not do anything without asking you for
          confirmation first.
        * You can abort the script at any point and re-run it later
        * If you answer 'no' to any questions you can always re-run
          the script again later
Hit <Enter> to proceed with installation

##########################################################
Checking dependency on TWiki::Contrib::Attrs....
I can't automatically update the revision history for
data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt.
Please edit the topic in TWiki and Save without changing it to update the history.
I can't automatically update the revision history for
data/TWiki/CommentsTmpl.txt.
Please edit the topic in TWiki and Save without changing it to update the history.

### CommentPlugin installed ###
root@biz2tek 11:02pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 61> date
Thu Apr 14 23:02:48 CDT 2005
root@biz2tek 11:02pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 62> uname -rs
Linux 2.4.20-021stab028.3.777-enterprise
root@biz2tek 11:02pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 63> ls -l data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt
  17 -rw-r--r--    1 root     nobody      15940 Feb 25 03:58 data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt
root@biz2tek 11:04pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 64> ls -l data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt*
  17 -rw-r--r--    1 root     nobody      15940 Feb 25 03:58 data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt
  15 -r--r-----    1 nobody   nobody      13645 Apr 12 00:21 data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt,v
root@biz2tek 11:04pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 65> 
root@biz2tek 11:04pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 65> ls -l data/TWiki/CommentsTmpl.txt*
   7 -rw-r--r--    1 root     nobody       6955 Feb 25 03:58 data/TWiki/CommentsTmpl.txt
   9 -r--r-----    1 nobody   nobody       8015 Apr 12 00:20 data/TWiki/CommentsTmpl.txt,v
root@biz2tek 11:04pm [...biz2tek.com/twiki] 66> 

Additions

The same stuff happens with MailerContrib. I'm starting to see that this may happen with every plugin I try to run the _install.pl script on my system. Should this be the case? Does this happen for everyone, and everyone ignores it?

-- MattEngland - 15 Apr 2005

Yes. The warning is printed because the installer can't modify those topics, because the apache user has them checked out in RCS. The advice is to manually edit those topics and save them again to reflect the changes so that histories are maintained. That's important if you configure plugins locally and then later upgrade them, so if I were you I would follow the instrcutions.

This is a shortcoming of the current TWiki release, and will go away with the next release.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 17 Apr 2005

Environment

-- MattEngland - 15 Apr 2005

Answer