[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1519516] Re: Upgrade to 15.10 fails for sites that have upgraded Mahara by copying over their existing installation

2016-11-06 Thread Robert Lyon
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[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1519516] Re: Upgrade to 15.10 fails for sites that have upgraded Mahara by copying over their existing installation

2015-11-26 Thread Aaron Wells
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[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1519516] Re: Upgrade to 15.10 fails for sites that have upgraded Mahara by copying over their existing installation

2015-11-26 Thread Aaron Wells
Okay, the README.md file points users to the wiki for upgrade advice. And the wiki *already* tells you that extracting the new code over the old code is not recommended because of these sorts of issues. I've updated it make this even clearer, and I've added a section to the FAQ at the end, with

[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1519516] Re: Upgrade to 15.10 fails for sites that have upgraded Mahara by copying over their existing installation

2015-11-26 Thread Aaron Wells
... and now that's resolved, updating this bug to "Won't fix", to indicate that we haven't and won't be making any code changes to make Mahara compatible with copy-over upgrading. We still might want to put in place a sanity check to detect copy-over upgrading. As mentioned above, that's been

[Mahara-contributors] [Bug 1519516] Re: Upgrade to 15.10 fails for sites that have upgraded Mahara by copying over their existing installation

2015-11-24 Thread Aaron Wells
Filed a related bug 1519519 for the idea of putting in a sanity check to warn users off of this practice. In the meantime, I think I'm just going to tackle this with this approach: 1. Make sure our official upgrade documentation is not telling people to upgrade by copying over their existing