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From: "Yuri" <y...@rawbw.com>
No, look at ports-mgmt/portupgrade, it is capable of upgrading ports
in-place quite happily in most cases. With the caveat that there might
be some special steps that need to be taken not covered by port itself.
This usually happens when dependencies split or being renamed or some
other wild change that isn't covered by the standard process. But in the
case of wordpress no special record has been placed into
/usr/ports/UPDATING, which means that portupgrade should be sufficient.
I'm sorry but your wrong, as you can clearly see from the port Makefile.
Yes /usr/ports/UPDATING can be helpful but in this case the warning is
presented by the pre-everything target which you will likely miss if your
using portupgrade.
All portupgrade does is manage the process of uninstalling the old version
and installing the new version. So its generally fine for binary only
packages but for those that include data which needs special handling on
upgrade such as wordpress, perl, mysql etc you still need to do those
processes manually.
I'd suggest restoring you pre-upgrade backup of both files and db and
perform a
manual upgrade as per the wordpress guide.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
This is quite unpractical with many packages installed on the system.
Also WP has an embedded DB update process that is activated
automatically when you first run after system upgrade. This makes manual
upgrade redundant (at least theoretically).
Absolutely not, ALWAYS backup your data before each upgrade, its the only
way to be sure you don't loose things if something goes wrong.
In addition be especially careful with major version upgrades like 2.9 ->
3.0 as they often have additional caveats.
Regards
Steve
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