Thanks David - that helps alot Cheers Sam
On 15/03/2010 12:36, David E Jones wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Sam Hamilton wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> I have a test server that runs against a mysql database for which I have >> been getting updates from SVN for the last 6 months. >> Well recently the new theme Tomahawk was release and I SVN up but still >> the theme didn't show up, so I googled and found out that you needed to >> ./ ant run-install-seed to make the new theme work - which it did and >> now my test server is running the great new theme. >> >> Can someone tell me why that process is not handled by the normal boot >> up process which would create missing entities in the database? > > The normal process only creates missing tables and columns. It doesn't adjust > column sizes, column types, remove renamed or removed fields, or any other > database maintenance things. It also doesn't look at all seed data to make > sure it is up to date and inconsistent with what is in the files. > > -David >