On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Brion Vibber wrote:
HumanCell .org wrote:
As we're on the subject of updates, are there any plans to make them (semi-)automated?
cvs up -dP && php update.php
;)
:-) I am just glad about every mediawiki update which doesn't change the database schema or charset. Its even worse when you run more than one wiki, like I do.
Quarterly updates that have to be done manually represent quite an administrative overhead for some sites. On the other hand RPMs distributed by yum/apt would be great as they'd also allow urgent security updates to be distributed quickly.
You can use your distribution's packaging system, if they have it and you dare. At least Debian, Gentoo, and FreeBSD have MediaWiki packages, though I don't know how up to date.
it is also in Fedora Extras for Fedora Core 5: mediawiki-1.5.7-1.fc5
I haven't dared to try it either.
christof