[rt-users] finding out the version of an old copy of RT?

[Carl Brewer]

Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:34:01PM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote:
>> I have a mysqldump of an old rt3 instance that I need to bring back to 
>> life, but I don't know what version it was dumped from, and not 
>> surprisingly a few things don't work - like seeing ticket contents, for 
>> example!  And updating tickets .. etc.
>>
>> Is there any reasonably easy way to work out what version of RT the dump 
>> is from so I can get a rough idea of what upgrade path I need to take to 
>> make it work?  The RT install I want to make it work with is from NetBSD 
>> pkgsrc (RT v3.4.6), and the RT instance I have a dump of predates that 
>> by 'a bit'. The machine the dump came from is long gone so I can't just 
>> jump on to it for a look.
>>
> 
> You can compare sql schema with those provided with different RT release
> tarball (in etc directory).
> 
> There are major release which can be "easily" identified this way (2.x,
> 3.0.x, 3.2.x, 3.4.x, 3.6.x) I think.

I managed to get in touch with the previous sysadmin, it was 3.2, now 
upgraded to 3.4.6 and all working.  Thankyou!

Carl