On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> El 5/1/09 12:41 PM, Leons Petrazickis escribió: > > It's probably a good idea to go through intermediate version for the > > upgrade. For example, 1.5 -> 1.7 -> 1.9 -> 1.11 -> 1.13. You may be > > able to make bigger jumps, but going two versions up should always be > > safe. > > You should never need to do this -- upgrading directly from any previous > MediaWiki version to the latest is the recommended process and should > always work unless something's broken. > > I just did a quick test upgrading a fresh 1.5 branch installation to > 1.14 branch, and the update went flawlessly. That may be true by 1.5, but I had a set of 1.3.x installations that I tested some upgrades with to the then-current level 2 years ago and it barfed and died repeatedly and consistently. I asked here and was told to do incremental one-step upgrades. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
