[ic] What would be required to move from 4.8.7 to 4.9.?

[Jonathan Clark]

> > > > > Hi All
> > > > > I have a nice stable 4.8.7 on RH 7.3 + Perl 5.6.1
> > > > > Originally a 4.8.5 install which has been updated to 4.8.6
> > > > then 4.8.7.
> > > > > It is a while ago but I believe I installed the 4.8.5 using
> > > > RPMs as have the
> > > > > updates.
> > > > > A few questions:
> > > > > Would I be able to install 4.9.? without affecting my 4.8.7?
> > > > > Can they both run at same time? ie have sites on each.
> > > > > What is going to break moving the 4.8.7 site across?
> > > > > it is 99% foundation demo at the moment.
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > _______________________________________
> > > > > Andrew Rich
> > > >
> > > > I just upgraded and everything on the frontend works fine.
> > > > There were some issues with
> > > > the admin but nothing that couldn't be fixed. For example the
> > > > orderline status page
> > > > wasn't functioning properly so I just used the page from
> > > > 4.8.7. All I did to upgrade was
> > > > to backup ic completely (catalogs + source + settings) and
> > > > used the rpm upgrade
> > > > option. I did have to remove the history scan usertag from
> > > > the old catalog.cfg files. No
> > > > other problems, so far. How ever you do this just make sure
> > > > you backup your current
> > > > information.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Gurs
> > >
> > > Did you have to run any RPM remove.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Andrew Rich
> > >
> >
> > I didn't need to remove or install anything.
> >
> > I put all my rpm files (ic-core, ic-foundation,
> > ic-foundation-demo) in one folder and used
> > the command: rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gurs
>
> Gurs
>
> Thank You for your assistance.
>
> I will prepare myself !

You might want to check the fields in the tables after upgrade, comparing a
demo 4.9.x with your copy. I know there are a few new ones in mv_metadata
for example. To add them to this table, edit the products/mv_metadata.asc
file, go to the end of the first line which contains the field names and add
a <tab> and then the field name for each one missing. This will help the
display of table data in the UI.

Jonathan
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