[rt-users] RT 3.0.8

[Todd Chapman]

Upgrading is mentioned in the README.

5b  FOR UPGRADING: (Within the RT 3.0.x series)


        Read through the UPGRADING document included in this distribution.
        It may contain important instructions for updating your database

        As root, type:
                make install     (replace "make" with the local name for
                                  Make, if you need to)

        This will build new binaries, config files and libraries without
        overwriting your RT database.

        It may then instruct you to update your RT system database objects



Also, there is an UPGRADING document.

-Todd

> 
> Jesse,
> Thanks for the great work and the update.  I'm new to RT (relatively) so
> I'm curious about the procedure for upgrading.  I took a look at the TAR
> file and see a bunch of changes to /sbin and /lib files, however it
> extracts to a rt-3-0-8 directory.  Since the standard, default install
> directory is /opt/rt3, what's the preferred method of installation?  I
> did look for a README and the RT docs on the website but didn't see
> anything that could be applied.
> 
> Just a suggestion, but maybe with RT4 we could go to a directory
> structure where each version resides in it's own directory and then a
> sym link from the base directory (root or opt?) takes you to the most
> recent
> 
> e.g. 
> 
> [john at localhost rt3]$  ls -l
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root  1024  Nov 2  rt1
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root  1024  Dec 3  rt2
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root  1024  Jan 2  rt3
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root  1024  Jan 31 rt3.0.8
> lrwxrwxrwx   2 root   root  1024  Jan 31 rt -> rt3.0.8
> 
> My apologies if this is already possible and I'm just not savy (or
> awake) enough to figure it out. I like this method because if an upgrade
> goes awry, it's easy and fast to back out by changing the sym link back.
> 
> John
> 
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