[ic] Will upgrading interchange clobber existing catalogs?

Dominic Tey Kek Keong interchange@dominic.per.sg
Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:34:48 +0800


On 24 Mar 2001, at 23:48, Mike Heins wrote:

> > Will upgrading interchange clobber existing catalogs?
> 
> No.
> 
> Quoting Dominic Tey Kek Keong (interchange@dominic.per.sg):
> > Hi, I have quite a number of catalogs done up in interchange-4.6.1 
> > (12 in all) and with this new version of interchange-4.6.4 I would like 
> > to upgrade it to take advantage of the security fix as well as 
> > mod_interchange among others.
> 
> The security fix is as easy as removing the :backup record from
> access.asc in your products directory, but the new UserDB module
> won't allow a login from :backup so that will work too.
> 
> > 
> > My reluctance is having to resusitate the various catalogs if 
> > anything goes wrong. OUCH!
> > 
> > If there's a better / safer way to do it, I would really appreciate any 
> > tips on it.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any or no help :-)
> > 
> 
> You should be able to simply install over the top of your existing 4.6.1
> with no impact and no changes necessary. Just tar up a backup of the
> interchange software directory just in case.
> 

OK, thanks for the reply, then it shall be so with a tarball or two as 
backup and crossing my toes at the same time.


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