topic Re: SVN and repository upgrade in Alfresco Archive

SVN and repository upgrade

deniv — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:19:00 GMT

Just curious whether Alfresco supposed to upgrade repository automatically after SVN-update/build or it is required to start with clear repository each time? Iâ€™ve just upgraded the server from revision 109 (14/12/2006 just after WCM was merged into HEAD) to 399 (25/01/2007) and receive an error w

Re: SVN and repository upgrade

kevinr — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:43:37 GMT

If you are taking cuts of the code from SVN at any time then you are not guaranteed to get a working system at all I would suggest you create a fresh DB instance each time if you are doing this. We can only ensure an upgrade path between specific releases. And I know for a fact that a fresh database instance will be required several times over between the two dates you mention

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: SVN and repository upgrade

deniv — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:44:30 GMT

Thanks for this information!

Thatâ€™s actually understandable as probably it would be too much overhead for the project to update the repository for each SVN commit. Just had hopes for a miracle.
Any way weâ€™ve already moved all our data manually as we at the moment have only couple of â€œprove of conceptâ€ projects deployed.

And recent release looks great!