[Fusionforge-general] fusionforge 4.8.2 to 5.x upgrade

Alain Peyrat aljeux at free.fr
Tue Nov 16 17:50:46 CET 2010


Keith.DeSolla at Zarlink.Com a écrit :
> 
> -----<fusionforge-general-bounces at lists.fusionforge.org> wrote: -----
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>     To: <fusionforge-general at lists.fusionforge.org>
>     From: Roland Mas <lolando at debian.org>
>     Sent by: <fusionforge-general-bounces at lists.fusionforge.org>
>     Date: 11/16/2010 07:58AM
>     Subject: Re: [Fusionforge-general] fusionforge 4.8.2 to 5.x upgrade
> 
>     Keith.DeSolla at zarlink.com, 2010-11-11 12:22:51 -0600 :
> 
>     > At some point we'll want to upgrade our FusionForge 4.8.2 installation
>     > to 5.0.x or 5.1.x.  Has anyone done this yet?  I'm wondering what kind
>     > of work is involved and what kind of downtime is required.
> 
>     I upgraded fusionforge.org (from 4.7 to 4.8 then 5.0, with all
>     intermediate micro versions).  No major downtime that I remember, but
>     it's not a big forge.
> 
>      If yours is bigger, it's always prudent to warn your users about
>     possible downtime, but I don't remember an upgrade taking more than half
>     a day (and that was for a client, upgrading both the system across major
>     Debian releases and the forge from GForge 4.5 to FusionForge 4.8).
>     There were a few glitches to fix afterwards, but the actual downtime was
>     pretty short.
> 
> 
> 
> thanks, Roland.    Your Gforge 4.5 to FForge 4.8 experience sounds about
> the same as ours.  I'm expecting a FForge 4.8 to 5.x upgrade to be less
> involved, but I'm not sure of the steps.   Is there an upgrade script in
> FForge 5.x, or does the install script detect an existing installation
> and do an upgrade?

The install script will upgrade the forge if already installed.

Alain.



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