[turba] how to simplify my turba upgrade process

[Robert P. J. Day]

  ok, i think i see where i misunderstood the fundamental process of
upgrading turba -- that the basic schema of the addressbook is
user-definable.  so let me ask a much simpler question that might make
short work of my confusion.

  to recap, i'm upgrading a horde install on a debian system from an
old 3.0.5 to the latest.  to do that, i started from scratch and
installed horde -- just the infrastructure.  and that worked fine, no
apps, just the infrastructure.

  now, one at a time, i'm adding back in the formerly-installed horde
(and non-horde) apps, un-tarring each app's current tarball following
each app's UPGRADING instructions and possibly upgrading that app's
data schema in the process.

  i've already re-installed the (kronolith) calendar just that way,
and it appears to work just fine, so now i'm working on the turba
addressbooks data.  and before i get detailed, will this basic recipe
get me my addressbooks back?

  1) note the current set of addressbook tables in the horde database
     (currently four of them)

  2) following what i read in UPGRADING, run the appropriate scripts
     to upgrade their schemas

  3) to start from scratch, delete *every* trace of turba from the
     new horde install -- that is, the share tables, the install
     directory ... *everything* except the addressbook tables

  4) install the latest version of the turba tarball back under
     the "horde" directory, and perform its standard configuration

  5) do whatever it takes to configure the new turba, pointing it
     at the existing addressbooks, figuring out how this "share"
     stuff works while i'm at it.


  does that sound reasonable?  i'm being vague about that last step
since i'll get to that later.  but other than that, is my *general*
idea of how to add the addressbooks back into the new horde install
sane?  because if it is, i can at least start by deleting all
turba-related content (except for the existing addressbooks) and
re-installing, so i know i'm beginning with a pristine install.

  thoughts?  at the very worst, as long as i hang onto those
addressbooks, i can always start over if i somehow screw up.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

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