[dokuwiki] Re: Planning update to 2006-09-28
- From: "Bob McConnell" <rvm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:18:43 -0400
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> [mailto:dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark McCoy
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:19 PM
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> Subject: [dokuwiki] Re: Planning update to 2006-09-28
>
> On 10/12/06, Bob McConnell <rvm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> > With the pending release of the new version, I am trying to
> get a handle
> > on what I will need to do in order to upgrade from
> 2006-03-09c. Since
> > the company wiki is being actively used (nine pages created
> or updated
> > yesterday), I will probably have to come in on a weekend to do this
> > upgrade, and won't have the time or resources to figure out what I
> > missed. But after reading through a number of pages and
> emails, there
> > are still a couple details I haven't been able to piece together.
> >
> > 1. What is the process to upgrade plugins after upgrading
> Dokuwiki? I
> > currently have Blog and Draw installed.
> >
> > 2. What are the relative merits of the Blog action plugin
> vs. the older
> > Blog plugin? Is there any significant advantage in switching?
> >
> > 3. If I do switch to the action plugin, is there any
> conversion needed
> > for the existing "discussion" directories? And can those
> directories now
> > be hidden from the index tree?
> >
> > 4. I have created a custom template by duplicating the
> lib/tpl/default
> > tree and making changes to those CSS and php files. What
> will I have to
> > do to upgrade my template?
> >
> > As an aside, the server we are running is Linux (Fedora
> Core 5) while my
> > workstation is W2K Pro. We have a Samba share set up on the
> FC box which
> > I can map from Windows. But unpacking the archive in those
> two systems
> > produces different results because of the line ending characters. Is
> > anyone aware of a diff that runs on Windows and can compare
> between the
> > two systems, ignoring that difference? If it helps, I do have cygwin
> > installed.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Bob McConnell
> > Principal Communications Programmer
> > The CBORD Group, Inc.
> > 61 Brown Road
> > Ithaca NY, 14850
> > Phone 607 257-2410
> > FAX 607 257-1902
> > Email rvm@xxxxxxxxx
> > Web www.cbord.com
> >
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>
> Bob,
>
> I would do the upgrade in the following manner:
>
> 1. Don't try to jump directly into an upgrade over one weekend. Take
> your time and install the new version into a test directory and copy
> your data directory into the new version so that you will have data to
> test against. Follow similar steps from when you installed the
> version that you currently use. Use a graphical diff program ("merge"
> works very well, tkdiff is also good) to see what the differences in
> the template are.
>
> 2. I would use the plugins that are appropriate to the new version,
> and install them from scratch into the test environment that I set up
> in the previous step. Test these plugins to make sure that they work
> as expected.
>
> 3. Don't try to use the files shared over samba to work on the
> installation, unless you know what "gotchas" you are going to
> experience as far as file permissions, file ownership, and line
> endings. You have cygwin installed, turn on the X server and use
> ssh+X forwarding to display tkdiff or merge windows on your Windows
> PC.
>
> 4. Once you are sure that the new version works as expected, make a
> backup of the old directory, upgrade to the new version from your test
> version, and have your users test from there.
>
> --
> Mark McCoy -- Professional Unix geek
>
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> with disloyal subversion. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for responding, I do like that tag line.
If this upgrade takes more than half a day, my wife and grandchildren
will be very upset, weekends are supposed to be family time. My wife is
already complaining about losing me for half a day because I have to
come into the office to do this.
X-Windows is not an option, it is not installed on the server. I use
TextPad4 for editing on the share and have had no problems so far. It
does a good job of protecting encoding and line endings. I also have ssh
access to the base directory and can change permissions on any files and
directories I create. I can use joe over ssh if it comes to that.
I will have to talk to the webmaster to see if I can get a test domain
set up on that server and in DNS. Otherwise, I don't have http access to
any other directory. Even though this site is on a development server
and is for internal use only, it is tightly locked down.
It appears that there are now two versions of Blog, the original and the
action plugin. Unless the old one will not work or be supported on the
new release, I see no reason to switch. Plus I didn't see any
information about how to switch from the old to the new.
Bob McConnell
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