When performing minor upgrades like 1.4.5 to 1.4.6 rather than 1.4.0 to
1.5.0 the installer isn't usually required as there aren't usually database
changes.
From what I have read with minor upgrades you can run
the installer, it
should work and shouldn't cause any problems; I always avoid
things like
this because there is more to go wrong.
Arthur Guy
arthur(a)astarsolutions.co.uk
www.astarsolutions.co.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Scott Garman
Sent: 13 July 2005 17:16
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Problems upgrading (1.4.5 -> 1.4.6).
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:52 +0100, Arthur Guy wrote:
Why are you re-running the installer, all you have to
do is copy and paste
the directory structure and files, keeping your images folder and
localsettings.php file the same.
I made the upgrade a couple of days ago and following the method above I
haven't had any problems.
Arthur Guy
Hi Arthur, thanks for the reply. I guess I was just confused by this
description in the UPGRADE file:
Basically, to upgrade a wiki you:
* Back up your data! (See Backups! below)
* Extract the new archive. If you can do this in a clean directory
that's
great, but it should work to extract over the old files too. This may
be easier if you have images etc in place and don't want to move them
around, but remember to back up first!
* Run the installer to upgrade the database schema (if necessary).
Since I had no idea if running the installer was necessary, I did it
anyway. I would think that doing so when it's not necessary should not
throw any errors. Could this be a bug?
I'll try upgrading this time without running the installer.
Thanks,
Scott
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