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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Jean-Baptiste

Le 07/06/2010 11:48, Jean-Baptiste Denis a écrit :

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Hello everybody,

i'm quite new to Sympa mailing list software, and i need to update it from 
version 3.4.3 running on a Postgresql database to a 6.x version. 

Now THAT'S a gap. :-)
3.4.3 was 8 years old. You will sure see a difference once your new server is set up.
Moving on.

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I'm wondering 
about the best upgrade strategy to adopt.
  

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The NEWS file in the source directory is a quite nice since it seems to list 
the database updates to apply manually at each revision.
  

If you are changing tour server, install an empty Sympa on the new server, then create the new database using the script in src/etc/script/create_db.Pg and import the data from the old database.
This will allow you to check if everything works well and give you a chance to upgrade tthe database in a single step.

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My plan is to update Sympa 3.4.3 to each version which need a manual database 
update and to deal with problems from here. 
  

See above before that.

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What do you think about it, do you have any advice ? 
  

The database is not the only trouble. You will have to run sympa.pl --upgrade to change a lot of things, among them the files encoding.
The trouble is that there is an upgrade script for versions starting from 4.2b.1. So you will still have to read the NEWS file to know what to do to reach the state of a 4.2b.1.
Be sure to back up your data (confgi, archives and database) before upgrading.

Regards,

David

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Regards,

Jean-Baptiste Denis
  

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