Hi there,
I just wanted to tell about my efforts to upgrade OpenXPKI to its newest
version 3.26.
I was using an old Ubuntu build (v2.5.5) on an old Ubuntu box. I upgraded the
OS and also updated the OpenXPKI apt sources file to its newest releases on
each os upgrade.
After the upgrade, OpenXPKI did not run anymore, which was expected, as I did
not yet follow the upgrade instructions. (I found them on GitHub)
But even after doing so, I did not seem to have the newest files installed. I
ended up cloning the config repository and replacing all the old files in my
realm directories.
Is this the the way an update is meant to be done?
If not, or if the newest files are also being downloaded during "apt-get
upgrade", it would be good to know where they are placed. (Maybe there's a
well-known directory in the filesystem hierarchy standard and I just don't know
that, so please bear with me...)
But even after updating all the files, I kept getting crashes. When looking
into the logs, I saw that there are some changes to the database schema which
were not mentioned in the docs (or which I didn't see).
Btw, I performed all the schema updates form 1.x to 2.x a long time ago, but
there seem to have been added some new columns since that time which I did not
have in my database. After adding the missing columns one after another, I saw
that there's a schema version informativ in the database which did also not yet
exist in my installation.
(There was a warning message about that, but I did not know where to specify
the database schema version.)
Would it have been better to just set the schema version to some specific value
and to be able to keep using the previous schema? If so, which value would that
be?
I also found that now there are SEQUENCEs in the database where there have been
standard tables before. I updated that as well.
So now my question:
Did I do the update correctly?
Or is there rather a better way to do it?
I have another instance which is used actively by some users as production
system and I would prefer to update that system exactly as the update is meant
to be done.
By the way, thank you very much for this great piece of software you created
and provide to us!
Best regards
Tom
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