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[EP-tech] Re: upgrade to 3.3.x from 3.2.8

Hi Seb,

Many thanks for this.Since files under archives/ourarchive/cfg/* aren't touched, I guess our ethesis sub-collection will remain untouched.

Regards,
Ranju.

----- Original Message -----
From: Sebastien Francois <sf2@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:04 pm
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: upgrade to 3.3.x from 3.2.8
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk

> Hi,
>
> See a few comments below:
>
> On 02/10/12 10:22, Ranju Upadhyay wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since nobody replied, I am replying to my own question!
>
> My plan to upgrade is like this:
>
> As root:
>
> 1. Download tar file
>
> 2. unpack tar file to /home/mydir
>
> 3. cd /home/mydir/eprints-3.3.x
>
> 4.  ./configure --prefix /var/lib/eprints3 (this is where our current eprints is)
>
>  5.  ./install.pl
>
> 6.  (as eprints) cd /var/lib/eprints3
>
>  7. epadmin upgrade ourarchive
>
> Beware that this may take long. During that time the repo will not be in a usable state.
>
>
> 8.  restart Apache
>
> This will probably upgrade our repo.But I would still like to know a few things:
>
> * which is the stable one in 3.3.x and can I go directly from 3.2.8 to 3.3.x
> The latest stable version is 3.3.10 and yes you can go from 3.2 to 3.3
>
>
> *What happens to the old configuration/code files , are they overwritten?
> The .pm files in perl_lib are backed up (the install.pl step will tell you). The local configuration (archives/ourarchive/cfg/*) isn't usually modified, and actually you'll need to do this by hand (i.e. you could missing some new features/conf).
>
> I usually do after the upgrade:
>
> cd <your eprints install path>
> diff -rq lib/defaultcfg/ archives/ourarchive/cfg
>
> this will tell you of missing files (that you can copy over) and changes (that you may need to merge, I use vimdiff to check this).
>
> If some conf files contain new fields/datasets, you may need to run bin/epadmin update ourarchive so that EPrints adds the new DB tables/columns.
>
> You should also diff your old template with the new one (some things have changed in 3.3, esp. the <head> section).
>
> If you wrote custom plugins, those may break in 3.3.
>
> Last but not least, you may need to disable people logging in during the upgrade process. Look at cfg.d/user_login.pl to disable that option.
>
> Good luck,
> Seb.
>
>
> In the past when we did the upgrade, we actually did a clean install and create (in a new server) and then brought in the db and documents before running the upgrade process.In that case I had to do re-do all the customization manually again.But this time I would like to run the upgrade process in already existing one.
>
> Thanks in advance for help.
>
> Ranju Upadhyay
> National University of Ireland Maynooth.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ranju Upadhyay <Ranju.Upadhyay@nuim.ie>
> Date: Monday, September 24, 2012 2:52 pm
> Subject: [EP-tech]  upgrade to 3.3.x from 3.2.8
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We would like to upgrade our eprints test environment from 3.2.8 to latest stable release of 3.3.x.
> >
> > Looking at the documentation here:
> >
> > http://wiki.eprints.org/w/New_Features_in_EPrints_3.3
> >
> > it looks like 3.3.5 is the latest stable release of 3.3.x, is that still the case?
> >
> > where can I find documentation on the upgrade process itself?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ranju Upadhyay
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