[rt-users] Upgrade from 3.6.1 to 3.8.8

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 12/10/2010 05:57 PM, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:55:40PM +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>> On 12/10/2010 02:48 PM, Kevin Falcone wrote:
>>>> We now will be upgrading our Debian server and the version of RT
>>>> used will go from 3.6.1 to 3.8.8.
>>>>
>>>> How feasible is the upgrade from 3.6.1 to 3.8.8?  What would need to
>>>> be done?
>>>>
>>>> Someone has mentioned updates to the DB being needed - I'd
>>>> appreciate any pointers to the SQL which would be needed.
>>>
>>> Have you read through UPGRADING and the README that are included with
>>> every download of RT?
>>>
>>> It covers all of this.
>>
>> Not really. It is very important for the upgrade to read UPGRADING.mysql
>> and follow the steps detailed below:
>
> Both of the files I reference contain pointers to UPGRADING.mysql
>
> 3.8 (3.8-trunk)$ grep UPGRADING.mysql *
> README:     you're using MySQL, read through UPGRADING.mysql as well.
> UPGRADING:If you are using MySQL, please read the instructions in UPGRADING.mysql as
> UPGRADING:New schema for mysql 4.1 and greater, read more in UPGRADING.mysql.
>
> -kevin
>

Kevin, I just wanted to point this out - many people missed this step because the
upgrade docs are not clear enough - check the archives :-).

Regards
	Racke



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