[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

[Pat Lockley]

when you set up XOT, is uses an SQL file in /setup/basic.sql to create
all the tables (not a problem if you already have a database).

If the update script uses a database table called config, then at
present, the installer doesn't contain an instruction to make a table
called config.

So it shouldn't be a problem for you to swap code.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> What did this mean?
> "(but see early q about where the config table is?)"
>
> -----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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