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[Gadi Vivier <address@concealed>]

Thanks Rafal. I found the missing step.

I initially ran "configure" without any options -- which gave me the 
puzzling "notice main:: Current version: 6.2.54; no upgrade is required"

I then rebuilt the server from a backup snapshot and read the 
instructions (D'oh!) in the Sympa docs and ran configure with the 
options:

./configure --enable-fhs --prefix=/usr/local --with-confdir=/etc/sympa

It was smooth sailing from there. Like it says on the can - when all 
else fails, read the instructions.

For anyone else who is also new to Sympa, the process was:

# service postfix stop
# service apache2 stop
# service sympa stop
# wget 
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/download/6.2.56/sympa-6.2.56.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf sympa-6.2.56.tar.gz
# cd sympa-6.2.56

/sympa-6.2.56# ./configure --enable-fhs --prefix=/usr/local 
--with-confdir=/etc/sympa
...
/sympa-6.2.56# make
...
/sympa-6.2.56# make install
...
/sympa-6.2.56# /usr/local/sbin/sympa.pl --upgrade
...
# systemctl start sympa.service
# systemctl start wwsympa.service
# systemctl start apache2.service


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On 2020-09-09 04:50, Rafal Szkup wrote:
> Don't you need to install (or copy all files) 6.2.56 first?
>
> From the log, you're still using 6.2.54.
>
> If you already installed 6.2.56, are you sure it is under
> `/usr/local/sbin/` ?
>
> On 9/09/20 4:24 pm, Gadi Vivier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm attempting to upgrade from Sympa 6.2.54 (installed from source) to
> > 6.2.56.
> >
> > As per the docs I stopped Sympa, Apache, and Postfix, and ran:
> > "sympa.pl --upgrade" but got the following:
> >
> > # /usr/local/sbin/sympa.pl --upgrade
> > notice main:: Sympa 6.2.54 Started
> > notice main:: Upgrade process...
> > notice main:: Current version: 6.2.54; no upgrade is required
> >
> > Any clues on upgrading via sympa.pl  would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gadi