Process for moving older RB database to new install

Hello, I have a live Reviewboard 1.5.5 installation. We do regular backups with mysqlhotcopy. My question is - what is the process for using that older database with a new Reviewboard installation? All of the upgrade instructions I have seen seem to advocate upgrading RB in place, but we wo

Re: Process for moving older RB database to new install

Hello again, I found the 1.5 install instructionsagain. Everything has gone ok up to the point of installing Reviewboard itself. It looks like I want to easy_install the 1.5.5 version in here

Re: Process for moving older RB database to new install

Hi, You can install a specific one by doing ReviewBoard==1.5.5 The problem you're going to hit is that, back in the 1.5.5/early 1.6 days, we had dependencies listed like "Django>=1.2", but this will break for a new install, because the latest versions won't work with 1.5.5. Assuming your Pytho

Re: Process for moving older RB database to new install

Hey Christian, Thanks for the reply. Based on what you said, the approach I'm going to take is: 1. Get a server running with the same python version as the old server (2.4). 2. Copy over site-packages from the old to the new server. 3. Install Reviewboard 1.5.5. 4. Debug from there. I'll post

Re: Process for moving older RB database to new install

I got it working! In case it might be useful for someone else, here's the general outline of the steps I took: 1. Install CentOS 5.6 VM (I'm migrating from RHEL 5 final release) 2. Add the Fedora EPEL repo. Instructions here. Make