[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

[Julian Tenney]

Which other files contain install-specific stuff? Are there any? Or is everything in site_details?

Just to check, are there any database changes at all in the new version?

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 05 July 2012 11:49
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

How many people have tried a fresh install from trunk? That'd be Q1

The rest seems fine - I would guess it would work, bar the accounts
for OSLS (might be legacy), and the student in Health Sciences.
Index.php has if else on the login statements checking for usernames
and the like - I think there was 3 special cases.

Things to consider - whether dragging the folders in alters any
permissions on the files?

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm unsure about the curveball stuff, where it is and what to do with it.
>
> Was going to do this:
>
> - Export the trunk to an 'install' folder on my desktop
> - Move existing files from the server to that install folder, overwriting the svn files with config / settings specific to our install.
> - Which files are those?
> - Back up existing server files to another folder, so I can easily revert should things go screwy
> - Delete everything on the server.
> - Copy desktop 'install' folder onto server
> - Happy days. USER-FILES are in a different place, accessed through a symbolic link, so no need to worry about those.
>
> Chance of success??
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 05 July 2012 11:19
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>
> Speaking as Chief of Legacy code for XOT at Nottingham - don't forget
> all the crazy curveball settings for people who left, people without
> accounts, people with odd names stuck in the code. (mostly in
> index.php)
> I'd do a test version on LTDEV first for 1.8
>
> (but see early q about where the config table is?)
>
> As a suggestion.
>
> Get Unix bod to alter time stamps on all the files outside user-files.
> Then drop over the top. All files with the old date are spurious. Then
> delete those.
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I'd like to move our setup to 1.8 here: we've implemented some local changes
>> whilst development's been going on in the trunk, and things are getting a
>> bit out of synch, and I'm going to end up getting in a mess if I try and
>> bring all the various things into line bit by bit.
>>
>>
>>
>> We'll also have a working and reasonably busy install running 1.8 and any
>> outstanding issues will quickly surface...
>>
>>
>>
>> So, $64m question: I can upgrade going over the top. I'd quite like to make
>> a clean set of files, i.e. backup the existing files; delete the files from
>> the folder on the web server, drop in the new files, and then go, so I'm not
>> left with a load of old files lying around that I'm not sure what to do
>> with: but I need to keep our config files etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> How best to proceed? We should also write this up so others can follow a
>> simple set of instructions.
>>
>>
>>
>> I should probably wait until a  quiet ish time of the week to do this, and
>> it would be good if you guys were around for help, should I need it...
>>
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