Upgrading Kolab 3.1 to 3.2 on CentOS 6.4

Brady, Mike mike.brady at devnull.net.nz
Sat Mar 1 00:22:35 CET 2014


On 2014-03-01 11:22, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> On Saturday, March 01, 2014 06:51:28 AM Brady, Mike wrote:
>> 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
>> > [mailto:users-bounces at lists.kolab.org]
>> > 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.
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> users mailing list
>> >> users at lists.kolab.org
>> >> https://lists.kolab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >
>> > 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
> 
> 
> Thanks MIke for this link.
> 
> As far as you know, is there a document that explains which component
> version belong to which kolab
> versions like
> 
> Kolab-3.0
> Requires pykolab >= 0.5.14
> Requires kolab-webadmin >= 3.0.3
> etc
> 
> and Kolab-3.1.0
> Requires pykolab >= 0.6.11
> Requires kolab-webadmin >= 3.1.0
> etc
> 
> Currently, we call it kolab-3.0.0 or 3.1.0 or 3.2.0 but we don't know
> what it really is.
> 
> 

No I do not know of such a document.  Each of the 3.x releases has had a 
separate package repository for the RHEL/Centos binary packages though, 
so could look at the packages in each repository to what each is made up 
of.

The repositories are here http://obs.kolabsys.com:82/Kolab:/




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