[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Upgrade RC2 to RC3

[Mike Rylander]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:24:47PM -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> When you install Evergreen from a tarball (a .tar.gz file), the
>> config.upgrade_log is not currently set with the latest database
>> version number in the same way that it is set from a SVN checkout.
>> This means that there is no easy way to upgrade your database
>> without running eg_db_config.pl and recreating the schemas thereby
>> losing all of your data.
>
> D'oh! This is the part where I eat crow; I didn't realize the
> config.upgrade_log insert statement was getting munged in the tarballs
> to an effectively useless value. Perhaps we should be inserting both the
> real version number ('0478' for 2.0.0) as well as the human-readable
> value ('2.0.0') so that the upgrade scripts still could be used.
>

Pass me some of that bird, because that's my fault.  I will add
instead of replace from now on.

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