Upgrading Kolab 3.1 to 3.2 on CentOS 6.4
Brady, Mike
mike.brady at devnull.net.nz
Fri Feb 28 18:51:28 CET 2014
On 2014-02-28 19:30, Rob Arends wrote:
> Hi Mike.
>
> I've search for 3.0 -> 3.1 in place upgrades and can't find the how to
> instructions.
>
> Since you have-done..., could you reply with the link(s) you followed
> please.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Rob Arends
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.kolab.org
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> On Behalf Of Brady, Mike
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 9:08 AM
> To: users at lists.kolab.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Kolab 3.1 to 3.2 on CentOS 6.4
>
> On 2014-02-28 09:24, User, Kolab wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Am 2014-02-27 09:33, schrieb Jonathan Lishawa:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I am keen to upgrade my instance of Kolab 3.1 to 3.2 on CentOS 6.4
>>> (X86_64). Is there a standard process for upgrading or does this
>>> require a complete reinstall?
>>
>> I think it is a serious flaw of kolab, not just to add a new repo and
>> run yum update to get it updated with one click.
>>
>> If the whole system needs to be reinstalled for a single update or
>> needs to be reconfigured in depth, it is not worth useing it because
>> without updating but security issues disclosed, it would be insecure.
>>
>> This should be a topic for further updates.
>>
>> Kind regards.
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>
> Personally I don't have a problem with there being some manual steps as
> long as they are clearly documented as it was for 2.x -> 3.x (a full
> migration) and 3.0 -> 3.1 (an in place upgrade). I have had good
> experiences with both of these.
>
> I think that this is just a combination of no documentation and
> significant changes having introduced significant breakage. In my
> personal opinion 3.2 is just too broken to use. This isn't just
> upgrades. There seems to be significant breakage on clean installs as
> well.
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http://docs.kolab.org/administrator-guide/upgrading-from-kolab-3.0.html.
I only did a 3.0 to 3.1 upgrade once on a test system, but I didn't have
any issues with it. At least none that were to do with the upgrade. By
that I mean there were issues with 3.0 that I hadn't resolved that 3.1
did not fix.
Regards
Mike
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