[horde] again: procedure for upgrading Horde

[Markus Winkler]

Eric,

thank you very much for your answer!

On 11.07.2006 17:00 Eric Jon Rostetter wrote:

> There is no single answer, and the answer depends on your versions 
> being run.

I started a short time ago with Horde 3.1.1 and want to update to 3.1.2.

> There is a nice web gui available to the admin to configure the
> applications, which does only the conf.xml->conf.php translation.
> The really nice thing is it will tell you which ones need updating,
> so you don't have to determine this yourself, and only need to update
> those that need updating.

Am I right:

1) I simply copy all the new files from the tar-ball over the old
installation and then

2) go to the web-interface, it will compare the settings of the new
config.xml with the current config.php and tells me, what I have to do?

That would be nice.

> In much older versions, you will need to manually update conf.php
> files (but you really should upgrade to a newer Horde if this is the
> case).

No problem I think, as I have rather new releases of Horde itself and
all the apps.

> Next, for each updated module, I do a "diff" on the rest of the 
> configuration files to see what has changed, and manually edit my 
> configuration files as needed based on the "diff" output.

Also asking back just to be sure: For all the modules/apps like IMP the
mechanism you described above for Horde itself cannot be used here? I
have to check all these config files manually? If yes: it's strange,
isn't it? Do you know, why it's not the same way like in Horde-base?
Other authors?

> Often the changes are small and easy to merge. Sometimes they may be
> so great it may be easier to backup your current one, copy the .dist
> over, and reconfigure if needed.  It all depends on various things
> (including your upgrade path and method).

OK, as far as I understand it seems to be rather complicated? Seems to
be a question of design. But I'm glad that I know now, where to look for
what. At least I think so. ;-)

Thanks again for your help!

Kind regards,
Markus