Hello again also :) ,
I also fully agree that an upgrade should not
break an installation and/or erase existing
configuration files, obviously if you had this
issue it may be a bug and not a feature.
We normally make a backup of each and every file
that is replaced during an upgrade procedure. For
example, you should have in your WEB-INF
directory a file web.xml_4_0_5, web.xml_4_0_6 and
web.xml_4_0_6_01 . The web.xml_4_0_5 is the
backup file made from the 4.0.5 Jahia install
when applying the 4.0.6 patch. The same goes
normally for the ldap configuration files or any othe replaced file.
Have you checked if these files were present ?
We unfortunately have currently no mechanism in
our upgrade process to only modify the various
configuration files, we hope to change that in the future.
In regards to this we normally add to each readme
file for a patch a section pointing that out
(like in the 4.0.5 upgrade readme
http://www.jahia.net/download/jahia4/4_0/patch/README_4_0_5.html
) , and if possible a diff file of all
differences between the old and the new file to help merging changes.
Unfortunatley, it seems this part was not
included in the 4.0.7_01 readme (but was still
present in the previous one :
http://www.jahia.net/download/jahia4/4_0/patch/README_4.0.6_01.html
), we will correct this mistake.
Best regards,
Michel Romy
Hello again,
I would like to report a problem that occurred
during our upgrade from version 4.0.5 to version
4.0.7_01. When we upgraded our Jahia server from
version 4.0.5 to 4.0.7_01 the "web.xml" file was
replaced with a new one, erasing the changes we
made before. Our TEST web site was unavailable until we found the problem.
We also lost all our LDAP configuration files
during the upgrade, we had to go back to the
backed up files and restore them manually.
I hope this is not a feature of your upgrade
scripts, but only a bug. If this is a feature,
you should add a warning in the README file. I
think a serious software company should never
release a patch that breaks his own software...
Thank you for listening,
Pierre Lemieux, bibliothèque de l'Université Laval
