SID-01149: Upgrade 5.0.0 to 5.0.1

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:		Server OS:	Debian 5.0.8	Last update:	14 years ago

Current installed version: TWiki-5.0.0, Sat, 29 May 2010, build 18859

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki says, under "Upgrading From TWiki-5.0.0", that "An upgrade package will be made available. Stay tuned."

Is this available yet?

I've compared a default 5.0.1 with our existing 5.0.0 installation. Ignoring files not present in the 5.0.1 tarball (ie, our content), there are 1137 file differences. It would be helpful to know whether there are any shortcuts to upgrading other than comparing all 1137 files...

Thanks

-- KeithEdmunds - 2011-04-15

Discussion and Answer

We have not done an upgrade package for TWiki-5.0.1, and we are soon to release TWiki-5.0.2. Assuming that you have not done any customization in the TWiki web (besides installing additional plugins), you can do this simple upgrade:

• backup twiki
• unpack TWiki-5.0.1 package to temporary location and recursively fix ownership of /data/ and /pub/ to webserver user
• copy all /bin/* from TWiki-5.0.1 package to your twiki/bin/
• copy all /data/TWiki/* from TWiki-5.0.1 package to your twiki/data/TWiki/
• recursively copy all /lib/* from TWiki-5.0.1 package to your twiki/lib/
• recursively copy all /pub/TWiki/* from TWiki-5.0.1 package to your twiki/pub/TWiki/
• copy all /templates/* from TWiki-5.0.1 package to your twiki/templates/
• copy all /tools/* from TWiki-5.0.1 package to your twiki/tools/

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-04-15

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