You may find this to be a better guide. http://plone.org/documentation/manual/upgrade-guide/general-advice-on-updating-from-a-non-buildout-to-buildout-based-installation
It's nominally about upgrading from pre-buildout systems, but everything is equally applicable to a major version change. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:14 AM, John Reese <jwree...@comcast.net> wrote: > I have a standalone Plone 3.3.5 site that I need to migrate to > standalone 4.0.1. The current site has few add-on products. I am trying > to follow the Plone.org documentation at: > > http://plone.org/documentation/manual/upgrade-guide/ > > Starting with section, Upgrading Plone 3x to 4x: > > > http://plone.org/documentation/manual/upgrade-guide/version/upgrading-plone-3-x-to-4.0 > > This guide certainly doesn't state what the author thought was obvious. > I'm trying to trace back these assumptions so that I can work with this > document. > > I'm trying to do the upgrade on a test server. I built 3.3.5, put in the > add-ons, and performed the first step of upgrade stated by the > documentation - modification of buildout.cfg inside Plone 3.3.5. (I > think the document is referring to the 3.3.5 buildout.cfg - it's not > clear.) > > The next step has me completely lost. According to the document, I > should now be Updating Add-on Products for Plone 4: Detecting Plone 4. > WAIT! I modified buildout.cfg in 3.3.5 but I haven't run the > bin/buildout command yet! None of the changes have taken effect! Why did > I modify buildout.cfg in the first place? > > And what's this about Plone 4? I haven't installed it yet. (Actually, I > have it on a separate server, but not on the test server.) Should it be > present on my test server as a side-by-side install of Plone? The > document doesn't say. > > And what is this weird statement in Detecting Plone 4: > > Here is an example how to detect Plone 4 during imports. Then > you can use PLONE_VERSION variable for making different code > paths. > > try: > # Plone 4 and higher > import plone.app.upgrade > PLONE_VERSION = 4 > except ImportError: > PLONE_VERSION = 3 > > Looks like a script, but what script? In Plone 3x or 4x? And why am I doing > this instead of preparing the 3x data for export? > > At this point I'm triangulating so many unstated steps that decided to ask > for your help rather than proceed. How do you really upgrade Plone? > > John Reese > > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > Setup@lists.plone.org > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup >
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