The best solution is to not upgrade your distribution before upgrading owncloud. There are bigger problems with distro upgrades if you use the PostgreSQL backend, for instance. Distro upgrades of servers need to be planned with all contingencies. Better is to install the new distro version on another machine and do a migration, keeping your data safely on the old machine in maintenance mode when things break.
I admit that the release upgrade was not planned carefully (not planned at all). I was expecting some adjustments would be needed, but not a deadlock.
Why not simply provide a standalone script to migrate the data from version to version? It is a common design pattern to provide scripts to migrate formats from version to version nowadays.
Looking from above this was the only piece of software in this server that had problems with the upgrade. It does not "feel" like something that could happen.
But you do miss the point that the occ script and the console.php script it calls do not rely on necessarily having php5; it looks like anything 5.4 and above is supposed to work. So installing the tarball release and then running the occ script should work with php7.
OK. If, like I said in my previous post, there is a safe way to test it, I'm available to do so.
Thanks. João M. S. Silva _______________________________________________ User mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
