Incremental upgrades - where can I get the files?

Nuke Cadet Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 2

Sorry, this is a really basic question, but I can't find the upgrade scripts that forum users refer to. I've searched this site and www.phpnuke.com without luck.
I'm currently on 6.0 and would like to go to 6.5 at least, possibly on to 6.7, but I'd like to do it incrementally rather than a big-bang approach. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

When you download the various nuke releases, there is a folder called 'upgrades'. Those contain the incremental MySQL upgrade scripts. As to the files, it is not incrememntal - you overlay everything.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Aug 01, 2003 Posts: 20

do you have to upgrade version by version and upload all the new files or just upload the newest nuke version ( say 6.8 into the 6.0 folders) and run the upgrade scripts?
or do you have to upload each and every nuke version and then runthe upgrade script before you upload the next nuke version?

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

You have to upgrade one-by-one.

Private Joined: Jun 09, 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Denmark

Oh Yes - I have also requested a package ONLY containing the changed or new files. But oh no, we all have to download 4MB and figure out which of the 2575 files in 163 folders that are interesting!!!
(and later ftp the hole lot up to our sites.....)

For the 6.5 to 6.7 I made a delta-package which can be downlaoded from my site here http://www.visayas.dk/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=3

You can also get at tool that can do the compare for you - Im right now trying Araxis Merge (can be obtained from http://www.araxis.com - this tool can compare the hole structure and for the changed files open an editor where the changes are high-lighted.
Araxis makes it possible to keep the personal adjustments most of us do.

I would be nice if phpNuke.org provided the delta-package - yesterday more than 16000 had downloaded version 6.7, so there are quite a lot of work around in the small homes figuring out what is updated (worse is that the official versions are far behind in fixing the bugs mentioned at this site or http://www.nukefixes.com

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:59 pm

Raven wrote:

You have to upgrade one-by-one.

Hrm... now I'm flummoxed...

I upgraded "one-by-one" from 5.5 all the way to 6.5. It was an arduous process, but enlightening. I stopped along the way and checked out the resultant changes. Then, the other day, I read a post by chatserv, I believe, saying all you had to do is run the update files 'one-by-one', i.e. in this guy's case, install the 6.5 files and run the update files one-by-one, e.g. 6.0 to 6.1, 6.2 to 6.3, 6.3 to 6.4, 6.4 to 6.5 --- whatever...

Is this what you mean also???

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:38 am

Not to muddy up the waters, but I was just looking at the Nuke 6.5 Final distribution and it has a upgrade60-65.php in it. That's the route I would go. As a matter of fact, that IS the route I went. I like 6.5! Then you could use secfix4 to (effectively) move up to 6.7. Then start tweaking it, install addons and so forth. Everything worth having works with 6.5!

Nuke 6.6 has a upgrade60-66.php, so that's a no-brainer also. I don't have distribution of Nuke 6.7, but with Nuke 6.8 you have a upgrade60-65.php, upgrade65-66.php, upgrade66-67.php and a upgrade67-68.php. Upgrading to PHP-Nuke 6.8 definitely <i>looks</i> like a hassle.

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

Keep in mind that the upgrades are for the MySQL database ONLY. They are the scripts that HAVE to be run, in order, from whatever version your are presently on, to what version you want to be, as long as it agrees with the FILES in the distribution that you download. Also, for clarification, applying a fixpack does not bring you to the higher release as far as FEATURES go. It only brings you to the security patches of that release. You still have to get the distribution from phpnuke.org, or some other reliable place, to have the features of that release.

Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:28 pm

Gottcha! Thanks!