Hi all,

I'm managing an Otrs 2.3.4 instance running flawlessly for almost 2 years on
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and now I'm planning the upgrade to 3.0.4, with an
intermediate upgrade to 2.4.9. We have some OPM package installed: Calendar
version 1.8.3, FAQ version 1.5.4 and Support version 1.0.13.

The upgrade will be done through the tar.gz source package.

My doubt about the upgrade process is the following: do we have to *
overwrite* the files in the /opt/otrs directory of the current 2.3.4 with
the files from the 2.4.9 tarball *or* it is better something like this:

   - unpack the .tar.gz of 2.4.9 in /opt/src
   - mv /opt/otrs /opt/old-otrs-2.3.4         # rename the current
   production instance
   - cp -a /opt/src/otrs-2.4.9 /opt/otrs-2.4.9    # clone the source in its
   own tree
   - ln -s  /opt/otrs-2.4.9 /opt/otrs           # sym link to the current
   version
   - copy Kernel/Config.pm Kernel/Config/GenericAgent.pm
   Kernel/Config/Files/ZZZAuto.pm from the 2.3.4 old version to the new version
   2.4.9 tree in /opt/otrs
   - set file permissions
   - run the database upgrade scripts

In this case the problem I see is that the extra installed packages will be
missing, so the question is: is it sufficient to reinstall them? even if the
database has been already modified?
Are there any other files beside Kernel/Config.pm
Kernel/Config/GenericAgent.pm Kernel/Config/Files/ZZZAuto.pm that need to be
ported from previous version? something in /opt/otrs/var ?

The same process will be repeated from 2.4.9 to 3.0.4, obviously.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers,
Luca
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