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- For instance, the most frequent releases come from Drupal (as of this writing release 7.36). That would be milestone 2. Once you perform the Drupal upgrade test that milestone by itself and all subsequent milestones, keeping every other component of the stack unchanged. Before starting the process be sure to do a tarball snapshot backup of Fedora, MySQL and Drupal.
- The next most frequent release upgrade is Islandora itself (in this case version 7.x-1.5), and for most cases it's backward compatible with older versions of Fedora (3.5, 3.6.2, 3.7.0, 3.8.0). That would be milestone 5 onwards. So again, before starting the process be sure to do a tarball snapshot backup of Fedora, MySQL and Drupal. Then proceed to the upgrade and testing of milestones 5 and 6.
- The least frequent new releases are that of Fedora Commons (as of this writing release 3.80). This is the most basic of all components of the solution stack it could be a little trickier, since it entails a true migration from the previous information on the MySQL database. Again, before starting the process be sure to do a tarball snapshot backup of Fedora, MySQL and Drupal, Then proceed to milestone 1 installation and testing, leaving all other components above alone. After that, move on to "fix" any outstanding issues with subsequent milestones, in the normal order.
Update Islandora from version 7.x-1.3 to version 7.x-1.5
Create tarball snapshot backup of MySQL and Drupal
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# $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# /etc/init.d/apache stop
# cd /var/lib
# tar -cvzf mysql-backup.tar.gz mysql
# cd /var/www
# tar -cvzf drupal-7.31-backup.tar.gz drupal
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
# $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
# /etc/init.d/apache start |
- Access the Modules section of Drupal and take note of all Islandora modules, solutions packs and libraries that are loaded. You could just as well make a recursive list of the contents of /var/www/sites
- Return to the Modules section of Drupal and disable all Islandora modules, solutions packs and libraries that are loaded. You may have to do this in 5 or 6 rounds, until you are able to disable the Islandora core module, and save the configuration.
- Then download and install version 7.x-1.5 of the Essential Modules, as described on the milestone 5 - Installing the Islandora Essential Modules section. Make sure to replace each and all four Essential Modules with the new versions in /var/www/sites/all/module (you may want to save the old module with a new name and recreate a new one)
- Proceed enable and test the four Essential Modules, and install any dependencies as required.
- At this stage, if all tests are a pass, you should already be able to see all your collections from before listed at the Top-level, even though you may not be able to access them yet.
- Now proceed to install all the remaining Enhancement Modules and dependencies as you had still on version 7.x-1.3. Use the Installing the Islandora Enhancement Modules section as a reference
- Proceed enable and test the Enhancement Modules, and install any dependencies as required.
