BEWARE upgrading Horde System

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Thierry Thomas wrote:

> Le Ven  7 avr 06 à 18:38:31 +0200, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org>
> écrivait :
>>> The Horde config is backed up to conf.php.previous on every upgrade.
>>> Simply copying this file back to conf.php, checking permissions, then
>>> regenerating the config through the web is enough to get you right back
>>> where you left off (provided you have done any other required upgrade
>>> steps).
>>
>> Right, now go upgrade your IMP, or Turba, or Kronolith?  And what about
>> changes to registry.php?
>>
>> All that should happen on an upgrade is the .dist files get upgraded, not
>> blindly overwrite any of the .php files that an admin may or may not have
>> modified ... that is why the base distribution has .dist files ...
>>
>> On an initial install, although it does add more work, putting the
>> original .php files in place is cool ... but, for instance, my motd.php
>> files for IMP is now gone, which had a bunch of programming in it to
>> redirect ppl coming in to various places ... now it has a 'Powered by
>> Horde' icon :(
>
> Which was your previous versions? All modified config/*.php should have
> been saved as config/*.php.previous, and a message should have been
> displayed:
>
>          cp -p $cf $cf.previous
>          echo "===> Backing-up..."
>          echo "--->   $cf has been saved ***"
>          echo "--->      as $cf.previous ***"

I had seen/found the one in horde/config/conf.php.previous ... totally 
overlooked the others ... but, the point is, why overwrite an existing 
configuration with a stock one in the first place?  None of the other 
ports does that ... just upgraded amavisd, and it has a fairly large 
config file, and it didn't move *my* config file off to the side to put in 
some default one :(

I ended up finding a backup of my old install that was laying around one 
of my servers (thank god I hate deleting old files), copying those in 
place, and then going through and manually updating my config files 
(either through Horde Admin -> Setup area, or using diff ) ... it wasn't 
until *after* had gone through this that I clued into the 'previous' files 
... casualty of using portupgrade to update ports, most messages like your 
above most likely scrolls off the screen faster then one sees it ;(

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