[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

Fri Jul 6 15:11:13 BST 2012

I'm going to upgrade our system two weeks today, I need to give users some notice of downtime...

So in three weeks time we'll have a number of systems running the new code: I reckon we should make the zip available at the end of July, that will give time to fix anything that crops up: can we not submit any new code to trunk now, just fixes?

Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 06 July 2012 10:22
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

I just updated my copy of XOT svn and then uploaded the updated files to the
test install.

As well as a Moodle upgrade I'm also doing a 1.8 install for a college on
Monday so will be able to confirm if any issues occur.

I'm also going to test upgrading a 1.7 installation at some point today...

Tom - are you updating XOT svn this morning?

Jonathan - you've listed a number of xerte desktop issues in the Google doc
- do these issues also materialise in XOT too?

Cheers
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 05 July 2012 14:58
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

Database.php. Thanks.

Mike H is going to help me move it all in the morning, so we can more easily
mo0ve stuff around on the servers and sort out file attributes and so on.

---CAN EVERYONE PLEASE CHECK THE SVN HAS ALL THE UP TO DATE FILES IN THE
RIGHT PLACES PLEASE---

I've just made sure the xerte runtime stuff is up to date, and copied the
files from svn xerte to svn toolkits. Be good to know that all the language
stuff, new models, xwds and so are all good to go as well. Thanks a lot.

-----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 14:16
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

Yep

have an index.html ready with "This site is under maintenance" ready - and
remember not to overwrite database.php

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> OK.
>
> Being a 'just do it' kind of guy, I am thinking about right now just
copying the new files over the top. Having the site_details site_location
thing makes it difficult to ape the install on ltdev without creating a new
database.
>
> If I backup the dir first, I can go back very quickly.
>
> Right?
>
> -----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 14:05
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>
> yep, and at some point you might need to create it
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Julian Tenney 
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Ah, OK.
>>
>> So that needs adding in to the svn then?
>>
>> -----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 14:01
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>>
>> 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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