Forum .LRN Q&A: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues?

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1: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues?
Posted by Janine Ohmer on 09/29/04 10:53 PM
I could swear that I remember seeing people posting lists of steps they had to go through to get their sites updated, but of course now that I'm looking I can't find any of them...

I have a very lightly modified .LRN 1.0 Oracle-based site to upgrade to something more modern, probably a 2.1 alpha release.  Are there any major pitfalls to watch out for?

Thanks in advance!

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2: Re: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues? (response to 1)
Posted by Janine Ohmer on 09/30/04 07:54 PM
Hmm... has no-one attempted this upgrade?  Or did it just go so smoothly you have nothing to report?
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3: Re: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues? (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 09/30/04 08:01 PM
sloan just did that upgrade, isn't it?
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4: Re: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues? (response to 3)
Posted by Tracy Adams on 09/30/04 08:40 PM
Sloan did the Oracle one and we put in fixed all the upgrade issues and put them back.

What about Postgres?

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5: Re: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues? (response to 1)
Posted by Janine Ohmer on 09/30/04 09:57 PM
Roc, you're right, Sloan just did it.  But we had a lot of local modifications to deal with, so it wasn't a very clean merge.  I was hoping to hear from someone who had done a more "plain vanilla" upgrade to get an idea of how much effort it was going to take.

Mainly I was asking becuase I thought I remembered seeing several people posting lists of extra steps they had to take to make their upgrade work, and I wanted to find out what I was getting into.  Maybe I was imagining things, or the problems have been solved since.

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6: Re: Upgrading from .LRN 1.0 - what are the issues? (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Grumet on 09/30/04 10:38 PM
These notes are pretty Oracle-specific but checkout the gotchas near the bottom:

http://grumet.net/writing/programmer/openacs/sloan-upgrade