Thanks for so fast reply.I was not expecting it.. Chris. We are using Perforce. We are using ReviewBoard from last one year and it come to my control just yesterday. I am not sure what version is installed but it would be nice if there is a way to check which review board version is installed.
I am trying to do upgrade only. No new installations. We are using MySQL database. My Linux is X85 GNU/Linux. Just to confirm, for upgrades my database will be same as before. No change to the database. correct? I am just worried about database as we have lots of data there and I do not want to mess up with it in upgrade. Also, I get most of what you said but I do not understand concept of target directory for the site. I see there is /var/www/ direcotry in our Linux machine but I do not find htdocs folder there. However, I do have htdocs directory at /usr/ local/lib64/pythong2.5/site-packages/reviewboard/. not sure what is use of /var/www/ directory in ReviewBoard installation. Also, how to point web server to the new locations? If you can explain that would be great. Thanks Kunjal On May 28, 12:19 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I assume you're currently using an SVN install? What version, and how old is > it? > > Also, what version of what distribution are you using? > > You'll basically be following the installation instructions for a brand new > install, but will specify your existing database information. I assume this > is MySQL or PostgreSQL. If so, then this will be fairly easy. > > Most modern Linux distributions have a new enough version of setuptools. If > you don't have setuptools, you can use the egg you found for it. > > The easy_install command can be done from any directory. From now on, you > should never have to think about your > /usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/reviewboard/ directory again. It > will be a behind-the-scenes thing entirely. > > I'm going to assume from here that your target directory for the site will > be /var/www/reviews. Use whatever you like, it's just an example. > > So, at this point, you would do, as root: > > $ easy_install -U ReviewBoard > $ rb-site install /var/www/reviews > > Follow the instructions. When it asks for the database information, specify > your existing database. > > At the end, it will give you some instructions for setting permissions. Make > sure to follow these instructions. > > If you have any uploaded media files in your old directory, you'll want to > copy them, like so: > > $ cp -av > /usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/reviewboard/htdocs/media/uploaded/* > /var/www/reviews/htdocs/media/uploaded/ > > You'll then need to point your web server to the new locations. I strongly > recommend using the generated web server configuration file in > /var/www/reviews/conf/ as a base, because they're going to reflect the > required Python module paths, turn on long-term expiration for the media > files to improve performance, and many other things that yours probably > isn't doing unless it's fairly recent. > > Then restart the server. > > The "rb-site upgrade" command will be used when upgrading Review Board in > the future. Upgrades to an rb-site-based install are really easy and fast. > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board -http://www.review-board.org > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com > > 2009/5/28 kunjal.par...@gmail.com <kunjal.par...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I am new to ReviewBoard and our company (Broadcom) use ReviewBoard for > > code review. > > I plan to upgrade to rc2 and want to make sure my steps are correct: > > I do not know how to get rb-site tool. > > Also, once I upgrade to new version, Do I move to new database or > > existing database and how this migration will happen. > > Pl. look at the steps below and let me know where I am wrong so we can > > perform upgrade as soon as possible as the bug fix in rc2 are really > > helful. > > > Step 1: > > > Download setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg (md5) from the link: > >http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#downloads > > > Once the EasyInstall is available, issue following command from dir: / > > usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/reviewboard/ > > > easy_install -U ReviewBoard > > > The console should display success or failure message and input any > > information requested by easy_install application. > > > Step 2: > > > Once the ReviewBoard is installed correctly, we need to perform below > > mentioned 3 steps: > > > Performs database updates and migrations > > Rebuilds missing parts of the directory structure > > Updates the local copies or links to the Review Board media files > > > As per the Review Board Group Discussion, the all above objectives can > > be achieved using following command: > > > rb-site upgrades /usr/local/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/reviewboard/ > > > The rb-site tool gets install when you install ReviewBoard using > > easy_install. 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