[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgrade Script for 2.6.4 to 2.7

[Chris Sharp]

Mike,

I was composing my response to Ben's message as yours came in, but it sounds like what you're proposing below is very much in line with what I was imagining.

I'd be willing to assist in making this happen, since I think it would benefit us all.

Thanks!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Rylander" <mrylander at gmail.com>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 4:07:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upgrade Script for 2.6.4 to 2.7
> 
> Chris,
> 
> That's what I've advocated for in the past (see upgrade scripts 0526 and
> 0537), via a helper script that 1) only applies what's needed (based on
> config.upgrade_log) and 2) knows how to look up supersedes/deprecated-by
> info from within the scripts.  Writing down a detailed plan keeps getting
> back-burnered, but there are at least four different scripts floating
> around that attempt to do various versions of that.
> 
> tl;dr of such a thing: all that's really needed to make that work is
>  1) a concerted effort by devs to do things like supplying fine-grained db
> scripts, particularly "reingest-only" scripts when a reingest is needed
>  2) RM involvement in the creation of per-release scripts that do just
> what's needed for the upgrade proper (like, do one and only one reingest)
>  3) inclusion of supersedes/deprecated-by info in upgrade scripts that do,
> in fact, supersede (or are deprecated by) early scripts
>  4) a (say) perl script to read all the upgrade scripts and apply them in
> order, as needed, based on config.upgrade_log
> 
> 
> 
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