On 2013-04-30, at 11:16 AM, Mason James wrote:

On 2013-04-30, at 9:38 AM, Paul wrote:

> Hi Jared,
> 
> At 10:41 AM 4/28/2013 -0400, you wrote:
>> Paul,
>> 
>> I've looked at the code in cleanup_database.pl (and search.pl), and can't 
>> see any obvious reason to "redirect to Installer."
>> 
>> So -- what has happened? Â Can I dump the cleaned db back into production? 
>> What are the specific changes 3.8.5 to 3.8.10 that required "updating"?
>> 
>> 
>> The redirect is because you had a newer version of the code than the 
>> database was run on.
> 
> Thanks for your reply, but this is worrisome. I had at {server}/ a tarred 
> 3.8.10.  I had at {server}/home/paul/ an untarred 3.8.10 (for .dif purposes.)
> 
>> Koha doesn't have any support for automatic upgrades, so I guess you must 
>> have untarred 3.8.10 at some point.
> 
> [see above] O.K. it's not "automatic" but it did in fact run automatically 
> without my permission. I ran: 


for the record Paul, Koha is *designed* to do this very thing

it forces the web-update page, if the database is older than the codebase (as 
yours is)


this is a 'feature' to stop stupid humans from corrupting their Koha databases, 
when attempting to run mismatched codebases and db versions


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