On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:26:17AM -0700, mdsanmdsajdsa wrote: > > The maintenance mode issue is my biggest pet peeve with the Debian > packaging... if it's going to upgrade, it should complete the upgrade! I > can't think of any rational reason why this should not be done with the > post-inst scripts. The documentation suggests the problem is that it "could > take a long time," but that's irrelevant because the server is completely > inaccessible until this is done. > > Quoting the following blogpost: > > > Second, the Linux packages will show a different upgrade behavior. Linux > > packages before 8.2 send an existing ownCloud server into maintenance > > mode, install the new code base, perform occ upgrade on behalf of the > > system administrator, then exit out of maintenance mode. This often came > > unexpected to the admin and is in general not safe as an unattended > > install. Third party apps are also likely to break this automated process. > > > > Linux packages 8.2 and up change an existing ownCloud server into > > maintenance mode, install the new code base, and leave the server in > > maintenance mode. It is up to the system administrator to finalize the > > upgrade. > > https://owncloud.org/blog/upgrading-to-owncloud-server-8-2/ > Well in that case they should say that there is no point at all in using the Owncloud repositories.
Either make it completely manual or do it all. A lot of OwnCloud users will be like me, my server is just for me and one or two family members. A significant downtime is not important, ease of use (to me, the 'administrator') is important. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ User mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
