[Opensim-users] Retaining correct creator/owner when moving OARs between stand-alone simulators.

[Justin Clark-Casey]

That kind of thing may well make sense in the future.

On 03/09/11 01:40, R. Gunther wrote:
> Sounds intressting, but if there's a switch. it sounds more intressting
> to save creators and uuid's always. and with loading check if uuid
> exists. if not use creator name.
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> On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 01:18 +0100, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> The solutions already advanced sound good, though I've never tried these approaches myself.
>>
>> Another possibility is to use the --profile switch in the save oar command.  Theoretically, this saves creator names
>> into the OAR.  When loaded by another OpenSim, these are used for creator names instead of resolving the UUIDs back into
>> user names (or to the estate manager if they are not present).
>>
>> However, I've forgotten exactly how this switch works (I didn't write it :) and there's no documentation yet.  This
>> needs to be investigated and written unless someone else can chime in.  I think the Kitely guys have it working if
>> they're on the list and can contributed any data.
>>
>> Also, in this we're doing things that the client was never explicitly designed to do, though it has been working.
>>
>> On 02/09/11 18:21, Kurt Reisler wrote:
>>> We have a number of stand-alone OpenSim 0.7.1.1 simulators. Occasionally we have a need to move a region between
>>> simulators via OAR files.
>>>
>>> The problem is that when imported via an OAR, the owner/creator of an asset are set correctly IF that UUID can be found
>>> in the database (we are running all of them under MySQL). If it can't be found, it defaults to the simulator owner (me).
>>> That means that I wind up owning all the assets I have to move between simulators.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got any suggestions as to how I could change the UUIDs to be the same on each of the simulators (in other
>>> words, what tables in the opensim database need to be modified and what fields)? Has anyone tried to do this before?
>>>
>>> I suspect I am going to run into the same problem with user UUID's when I move all of the stand-alones into a grid
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Kurt
>>>
>>>
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