Forum OpenACS Q&A: Upgrading from OpenACS 4.5 to 4.6

My understanding of what I need to do is:

1. Down the webserver
2. Update the code from OpenACS 4.5 to 4.6
2b. If there are any conflicts in the code, resolve them.
3. Boot up the webserver
4. Go to the APM, and go to install packages, and it should automagically do all the datamodel changes.
5. Restart the server
6. Thank everyone for making such a slick package manager.

My questions:

1. Is that right?
2. I'm confused at how to do step 2. I have my cvs repository at /cvsweb, and my code in /web/safe4all-dev    This seems like a perfect thing for CVS, but I seem to have forgotten how to do this. The last time I did this was a year ago, when I was ungrading ACS 3.4.9 to 3.4.10, and there was some documentation on how to do this.. Can't find it now.

Sorry to be asking for help all the time. I try to answer any questions I can help out with. 😊

Here's what I did:

• cd /tmp
• cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co openacs-4
• cvs -d /cvsroot -q import -m "Import of OpenACS 4.6" safe4all OpenACS openacs-4-6
  Here's the message I got after I finished

  12 conflicts created by this import.
  Use the following command to help the merge:
  
          cvs -d /cvsroot/ checkout -jOpenACS:yesterday -jOpenACS safe4all
  
  

• However, when I try this:

  cvs -d /cvsroot/ checkout -jOpenACS:yesterday -jOpenACS safe4all
  cvs checkout: existing repository /cvsroot//openacs-4 does not match /cvsroot//safe4all
  cvs checkout: ignoring module safe4all
  

Back up your live database.

Just so you won't be hosed if you run into an upgrade script problem.

You also have to visit the install packages page to see the upgrades options.  I think.

I've updated the source code, and merged it via cvs. I then brought up aolserver, and went to the APM page, and tried to install the kernel updates. Before I even got that far:

Package Installation

    Your Workspace : ACS System Wide Administration : ACS Package Manager : Package Installation

Please wait while the installer loads ........

  HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: AOLserver/3.3.1+ad13 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 04:22:53 GMT Content-Length: 2694 Connection: close

Request Error

Invalid file type "message_catalog"
    while executing
"error "Invalid file type \"$type\"""
    (procedure "apm_read_package_info_file" line 152)
    invoked from within
"apm_read_package_info_file $spec_file"
    ("foreach" body line 2)
    invoked from within
"foreach spec_file $all_spec_files {
    array set version [apm_read_package_info_file $spec_file]
    set version_name $version(name)
    set package_..."
    ("uplevel" body line 37)
    invoked from within
"uplevel {
          ad_page_contract {

    Select, dependency check, install and enable packages.

    @author Bryan Quinn (mailto:bquinn@arsdigita.com)
    @c..."
    (procedure "code::tcl::/web/safe4all-dev/safe4all/packages/acs-admin/www..." line 2)
    invoked from within
"code::tcl::$__adp_stub"
    invoked from within
"if { [file exists $__adp_stub.tcl] } {

      # ensure that data source preparation procedure exists and is up-to-date
      adp_init tcl $__adp_stub
..."
    ("uplevel" body line 3)
    invoked from within
"uplevel {

    if { [file exists $__adp_stub.tcl] } {

      # ensure that data source preparation procedure exists and is up-to-date
      adp_init t..."
    (procedure "adp_prepare" line 2)
    invoked from within
"adp_prepare "
    (procedure "template::adp_parse" line 30)
    invoked from within
"template::adp_parse [file root [ad_conn file]] {}"
    (procedure "adp_parse_ad_conn_file" line 7)
    invoked from within
"$handler"
    ("uplevel" body line 2)
    invoked from within
"uplevel $code"
    invoked from within
"ad_try {
        $handler
      } ad_script_abort val {
        # do nothing
      }"
    invoked from within
"rp_serve_concrete_file [ad_conn file]"
    (procedure "rp_serve_abstract_file" line 60)
    invoked from within
"rp_serve_abstract_file "$root/$path""
    ("uplevel" body line 2)
    invoked from within
"uplevel $code"
    invoked from within
"ad_try {
        rp_serve_abstract_file "$root/$path"
        set tcl_url2file([ad_conn url]) [ad_conn file]
        set tcl_url2path_info([ad_conn url]) [ad_conn path_inf..."

To be aggressive (clearing out directories, etc)
cvs up -APCd -D 01/31/2002

[joeuser@safe4all safe4all]$ find -iname '*.info'|xargs grep -l message_catalog| xargs cvs status -v
===================================================================
File: acs-kernel.info  Status: Up-to-date

  Working revision:    1.1.1.2 Sun Feb 16 17:10:17 2003
  Repository revision: 1.1.1.2 /cvsroot/safe4all/safe4all/packages/acs-kernel/acs-kernel.info,v
  Sticky Tag:          (none)
  Sticky Date:        2003.02.16.17.13.38
  Sticky Options:      (none)

  Existing Tags:
        openacs-4-6                    (revision: 1.1.1.2)
        openacs-4-5                    (revision: 1.1.1.1)
        OpenACS                        (branch: 1.1.1)

===================================================================
File: acs-lang.info    Status: Up-to-date

  Working revision:    1.1.1.2 Sun Feb 16 17:10:17 2003
  Repository revision: 1.1.1.2 /cvsroot/safe4all/safe4all/packages/acs-lang/acs-lang.info,v
  Sticky Tag:          (none)
  Sticky Date:        2003.02.16.17.13.38
  Sticky Options:      (none)

  Existing Tags:
        openacs-4-6                    (revision: 1.1.1.2)
        openacs-4-5                    (revision: 1.1.1.1)
        OpenACS                        (branch: 1.1.1)