[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

[Pat Lockley]

I can't recall much to be fair.

Download the zip, copy the site - put it through http://winmerge.org/
to see if there are differences

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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