[rt-users] General information about upgrade.

[Thomas Sibley]

On 11/08/2012 04:15 AM, Albert Shih wrote:
> I've see the new version of RT4x is release. 
> 
> 	1/ Where can I find the «changes file». ?

Release notes are now online at http://bestpractical.com/rt/release-notes/.

> 	2/ If I take a look inside 
> 	
> 		DISTRIB/etc/upgrade/
> 
> 	and (for example with rt-4.0.8) I've 
> 
> 		................
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.0rc2
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.0rc4
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.0rc7
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.1
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.3
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.4
> 		drwxr-xr-x  2 501  staff    512 25 oct 20:37 4.0.6
> 		-rwxr-xr--  1 501  staff   3738 25 oct 20:42 generate-rtaddressregexp
> 
> 	is that mean I don't have anything to do if I upgrading from 4.0.7 ? 

Correct.

> 	Is that the good way to see if I've anything to do for upgrading ? 

The best way is to run `make upgrade-database` as outlined in the README
and enter the version you're upgrading from.  If there is nothing to do,
it'll tell you that and quit.  If there are upgrades to run, it'll tell
you which ones and ask if you want to proceed.  You can decline if
you're just looking to see what you'll need to do later.

As Ruslan noted, you should also read the UPGRADING-* files under docs/.

Thomas