I have asked the same question (though mostly to Google) about the best
way to do a minor revision upgrade. I have had nothing but problems when
I try and just copy files from one version to another (Config.pm and zzz
files). Here is the final solution I came up with. It has worked for the
last two minor upgrades 2.4.3 -> 2.4.4 and 2.4.4 -> 2.4.5.

I have otrs installed in /opt. Each version is installed in its own
directory otrs-2.4.3, otrs-2.4.4 etc. I have a symlink from /opt/otrs to
the most recent version.

1. upload the new tarball to /root
2. Stop apache2 and Cron
3. delete the symnlink /opt/otrs
4. copy the current running versions directory to the new version
directory
        cp -r /opt/otrs-2.4.4 /opt/otrs/2.4.5
5. unpack the new tarball
        cd /opt
        tar -zxvf /root/otrs-2.4.5.tar.gz
6. recreate the symlink
        cd /opt
        ln -s otrs-2.4.5 otrs
7. Update the permission. Make sure to use the full path and not the
symlink.
        cd /opt/otrs/bin
        ./SetPermissions.sh /opt/otrs-2.4.y otrs www-data nogroup
www-data
8. restart apache2 and cron

The last two minor upgrades have been totally painless using the above
method. On my internal wiki I have left a place between steps 7 and 8 to
update the database. I will tackle that beast when the day comes. 

Hope this helps anyone.

-H


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Shawn Beasley
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:59 PM
To: [email protected]; User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: Re: [otrs] [OTRS] 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 shortest upgrade path..

Hello,

thanks for your praise, and your comments about the upgrade path. This  
is not always the fastest, or best way, but it is nice to see you  
giving back to our community.

On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Sarper SARIDAL wrote:

> I would like to thank the Otrs team and all the members of the group  
> for responding back.
>
> Today i raised a question about the shortest way of upgrading from  
> 2.4.4 to 2.4.5.
>
> I did it by manually downloading the source code (the zip file of  
> 2.4.5)
>
> Stopping the apache server from services
>





--

Shawn Beasley
[email protected]

Computers make work that one would  not have without them  go faster!




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