Jebs_SY Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I think this needs a small netkan update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcs123 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 55 minutes ago, Jebs_SY said: I think this needs a small netkan update. Seems like author of mod changed ways how folder structure would look a like. Try to uninstall previous mod version first. Then check out if there is any leftovers of previous install (empty folders or folders of mod with some config/xml files or similar left still left in. Delete those and try to install phoenix industries mod again. That should fix install issue if all files belongs to that mod. In cases of dependencies, it can be indeed that something is poorly configured with netkan. I don't use this mod for myself, so I can't tell what is exact issue. I hope it will help you to troubleshoot what is exact issue and narrow down origin of bug. That will help CKAN staff members to solve issue faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarlaser1 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) I just stick this into gamedata folder right? I had to uninstall KSP and CKAN do to an unrelated issue. Edit: never mind figured it out . Edited February 8, 2017 by nascarlaser1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarlaser1 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 (edited) when I tell it to link to my KSP, it cant find the KSP launcher anywhere, even I've played the game and know it exists. Am I trying to link it to the wrong thing or is something wrong? I have uninstalled an reinstalled CKAN twice in the last 20 mins because of this . EDIT: sorry for double posting. I thought this would merge with the other post, but it didn't for some reason. Edited February 8, 2017 by nascarlaser1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phineas Freak Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 @politas BTW, this thread should be tagged as "permanent". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aghanim Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I think that this: have outdated version in CKAN, CKAN latest version is v3.3.1 while KSP-AVC and Spacedock says that the latest version is v3.4.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarlaser1 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 has @politas left us forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxgurugamer Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 No, but he does have an outside life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Hyena Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 CKAN WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN MY WHOLE LIFE THIS IS AMAZING!!! ive installed B9 and its other recomendations this mod...no this mod installer is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HebaruSan Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I've seen 3 reports of missing mod versions lately that seem to be down to JSON formatting of the AVC version file. If there's a missing comma or an extra comma (it happens when people are maintaining JSON files by hand), the whole version gets left out of CKAN, but the author seemingly has no idea this has happened. This leads me to suspect that a JSON parser somewhere in the crawler is erroring out, but the error message is not being routed to someone who can fix the problem. I have a feature suggestion: Add a NetKAN field to track the email address of the person responsible for a mod's CKAN listing, so crawler errors can be sent there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarlaser1 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 does anyone know why when I install CKAN it wont find the KSP game inside of the KSP folder?? Am I doing it wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politas Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 6 hours ago, HebaruSan said: I've seen 3 reports of missing mod versions lately that seem to be down to JSON formatting of the AVC version file. If there's a missing comma or an extra comma (it happens when people are maintaining JSON files by hand), the whole version gets left out of CKAN, but the author seemingly has no idea this has happened. This leads me to suspect that a JSON parser somewhere in the crawler is erroring out, but the error message is not being routed to someone who can fix the problem. I have a feature suggestion: Add a NetKAN field to track the email address of the person responsible for a mod's CKAN listing, so crawler errors can be sent there. There is a page that reports errors in crawling - http://status.ksp-ckan.org/. I wish we had enough people helping out with CKAN metadata to ensure that it gets checked regularly. There was an idea of having individuals responsible for a given netkan's maintenance, but that has not been successful. Too much turnover of volunteers. 5 hours ago, nascarlaser1 said: does anyone know why when I install CKAN it wont find the KSP game inside of the KSP folder?? Am I doing it wrong? You need to select the build.txt or build64.txt file in the CKAN folder. 7 hours ago, nascarlaser1 said: has @politas left us forever? Not forever. Work has been very busy since December; I'm doing a lot of overtime. Will be back to CKAN when things settle down. If anyone would like to step up and do some metadata updates, we always welcome new contributors and offer help and advice to get up to speed with the vagaries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxgurugamer Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 @politas, I'll start being a bit more involved. Still want someone to look at the reg ex issue, I won't be able to look at that for a day or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HebaruSan Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 16 minutes ago, politas said: There is a page that reports errors in crawling - http://status.ksp-ckan.org/. I wish we had enough people helping out with CKAN metadata to ensure that it gets checked regularly. There was an idea of having individuals responsible for a given netkan's maintenance, but that has not been successful. Too much turnover of volunteers. Good to know they're not just dumped into a black hole; I appreciate the very real non-technical challenges in running something like that. Would you be open to some pull requests to redesign that page (assuming it's generated by code currently on Github)? I think I see some opportunities to ease the burden of working these errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politas Posted February 13, 2017 Author Share Posted February 13, 2017 Just now, HebaruSan said: Good to know they're not just dumped into a black hole; I appreciate the very real non-technical challenges in running something like that. Would you be open to some pull requests to redesign that page (assuming it's generated by code currently on Github)? I think I see some opportunities to ease the burden of working these errors. Certainly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HebaruSan Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 4 hours ago, politas said: Certainly! ... OK, I'm stumped. I read through enough of the CKAN and NetKAN-bot repositories to get a sense of where the exceptions come from and where they go, but I was not able to find anything resembling a web page renderer (or any other page on the internet containing that page's title). Would you mind pointing me in the right general direction? Maybe it's in a different repo? Also, a minor point of clarification from earlier: the version files that I have seen causing problems are not part of CKAN's metadata, strictly speaking; they're inside of the mod downloads themselves. So these problems wouldn't necessarily be apparent to a CKAN project member reviewing a netkan pull request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxgurugamer Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 12 hours ago, politas said: There is a page that reports errors in crawling - http://status.ksp-ckan.org/. I wish we had enough people helping out with CKAN metadata to ensure that it gets checked regularly. There was an idea of having individuals responsible for a given netkan's maintenance, but that has not been successful. Too much turnover of volunteers. @politas The errors shown on that page are rather cryptic. I tried looking into one (reported error is: Unexpected character encountered while parsing number: :. Path '', line 1, position 3. but it doesn't say what file or anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxgurugamer Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 I've sent messages to the authors of the following mods about syntax errors: PartAngleDisplay HistoricalProgressionTechTree 1 hour ago, linuxgurugamer said: @politas The errors shown on that page are rather cryptic. I tried looking into one (reported error is: Unexpected character encountered while parsing number: :. Path '', line 1, position 3. but it doesn't say what file or anything else. Oh, the .netkans are referencing missing files, I've sent a message to Roverdude about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarlaser1 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 I don't have any CKAN folder. When I installed CKAN all it gave me was the program... anyone know how to fix? I installed latest version from link in OP. I am using ksp version 1.2.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politas Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 5 hours ago, nascarlaser1 said: I don't have any CKAN folder. When I installed CKAN all it gave me was the program... anyone know how to fix? I installed latest version from link in OP. I am using ksp version 1.2.2. The ckan.exe program is all you download. a CKAN folder gets created in your game folder when you run the CKAN client successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxgurugamer Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 @politas I just made a bunch of updates fixing most of the errors I saw in the stats.ksp-ckan.org page. Hope it helps, let me know if anything was wrong (I merged them since they were just typos, new dir names, or in at least two cases, overriding the .version file due to a syntax error) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nascarlaser1 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 20 hours ago, politas said: The ckan.exe program is all you download. a CKAN folder gets created in your game folder when you run the CKAN client successfully. how do you run it successfully? I think I am messing something up . I still cant figure out how to make it find my KSP version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExavierMacbeth Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Request to the CKAN Team. Could you update this mod within the system? It looks like CKAN still has the really old "Spherical and Toroidal Tank Pack" from 0.23.5 rather than the package that was updated to work with newer versions of the game. Old link for reference: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggonemess Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 On 2/1/2017 at 7:51 AM, politas said: We've said it before, and I'll say it again - There is no way to add "last updated" date for mods without completely rewriting the way we find mod updates automatically. It's not going to happen. We're talking replacing most of our infrastructure code. Thanks for responding, I appreciate the answer very much. One other thing - is it possible to add a "select all / deselect all" to the checkboxes? That would rock. If not, I can always export a blank list of mods to use as a baseline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxgurugamer Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I came across a bit of weirdness, was wondering what was going on. I'm writing a script which will download mods from github based on what's in the CKAN-Meta files. I came across at least one case which has what appears to be wrong info. Specifically, the ckan file for AoATechnologies In all 4 of the .ckan files in the repo, the repository info is: "repository": "https://github.com/WolfairCorp/AoA-Technologies/tree/Update", I was getting errors on this, so generated a new ckan file from the .netkan, this one had the correct info: "repository": "https://github.com/WolfairCorp/AoA-Technologies/", Any idea what's going on? there may be others, this is the first one I was looking into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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