[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

[Julian Tenney]

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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