Indeed not upgrading WAR + UI makes sense. Upgrading only WAR without the UI doesn’t.
We agree :) Thanks -Vincent On 3 Apr 2015 at 13:37:48, Marius Dumitru Florea (mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com) wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:05 PM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > Hi Mahomed, > > 2 things: > > 1) if you pressed “later” XWiki will not ask you again until it’s restarted > 2) if you don’t upgrade now you are going to risk having stuff in your wiki > that don’t work so it’s important you upgrade ASAP. Having a reminder at each > XWiki restart is a good thing and bypassing that is not such a brilliant idea > IMO :) My comment was about blocking the WAR upgrades not the UI upgrades (through the DW). When you install XWiki through APT you may get unwanted WAR uppdates because: * the system is configured to update automatically * the list of system updates is large and you don't notice that XWiki is included in the list Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On 3 Apr 2015 at 13:01:10, Mahomed Hussein > (maho...@custodiandc.com(mailto:maho...@custodiandc.com)) wrote: >> Hi >> >> This is brilliant and just what I needed. Thank you very much! >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Mahomed >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: users [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Marius Dumitru >> Florea >> Sent: 03 April 2015 11:37 >> To: XWiki Users >> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Advice on upgrade and testing >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Thomas Mortagne >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Mahomed Hussein >> > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> I wonder if anyone could be kind enough to provide me with some advice >> >> and pointers. I’ve noticed that XWiki runs its distribution upgrade >> >> wizard automatically when a new version is detected, but even though I >> >> pressed “Later” it still went ahead and upgraded. Or at least it appeared >> >> to have upgraded part of the system as the core version at the bottom >> >> showed 6.4.3 when the extensions etc. were still for 6.4.2. We started >> >> with 6.4.2 (installed using apt-get on Ubuntu 14.04). So, to summarise my >> >> questions: >> >> >> >> >> >> · How do I stop Xwiki from automatically upgrading. I just want it to >> >> notify me then I can plan the upgrade >> > >> > You are mixing two different things. The upgrade wizard is only about >> > part of XWiki (the standard wiki pages) and it's been triggered >> > because you upgraded the WAR probably using apt-get upgrade. If you >> > don't want XWiki to be upgraded by apt-get you need to look at apt-get >> > configuration. >> >> > As far as I know you can indicate a list of packages to >> > not be taken into account automatically by apt-get upgrade. >> >> I successfully 'blocked' upgrades for XWiki by creating the file >> >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/xwiki >> >> with this content: >> >> Package: xwiki-* >> Pin: version 6.2.7 >> Pin-Priority: 1001 >> >> See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto >> >> Hope this helps, >> Marius >> >> > >> >> >> >> · How do you perform a controlled upgrade and test (I appreciate that >> >> this is a rather in-depth question)? What I need to be able to do is to >> >> do an upgrade and then be able to fairly easily test that the new version >> >> doesn’t break any of our documents or functionality that we depend on. >> >> Would the only way to do this be to keep a list of my changes and check >> >> them with every upgrade? >> > >> > The safest for this is usually to have a test server which is a clone >> > of the production server on which you do the upgrade and test it >> > before doing it on the production server. >> > >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for your time and help. >> >> >> >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Mahomed Hussein >> >> Senior NOC Engineer >> >> >> >> P.S. We are finalists for Data Centre Colocation Supplier of the year, >> >> please help us to win and VOTE for us here >> >> >> >> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230382 >> >> >> >> | Email: maho...@custodiandc.com > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
