On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Regarding the OpenEMR upgrade mechanism [3], OpenEMR also has a
> > database upgrade script (there are actually two, one to deal with
> > database upgrades and the other to deal with upgrading the access
> > controls). The current OpenEMR debian package automates this
> > process.
>
> I remember that we had some disputes regarding the GNUmed package when
> to do the upgrade. It is actually the Debian way to automate things if
> possible but there should be a way out of this at least - so we could
> do this if the user have acknowledged this in a debconf question. But
> these are details we will come to in a later stage of the process.
>
>
This discussion on upgrades for GNUmed and OpenEMR will be of great
interest for the packaging of VistA as well. It would seem that we all have
similar challenges: updating a system with a database that may already
contain user data.
I will be listening with great interest... :-)
Luis
