[Zope] Migrating between versions

[Tim Wilson]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 Tony.McDonald@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:

> As someone who's just done that...
> 1) copy all your .tar and .tgz files that you've accumulated into the top-level of the new Zope distn
> 2) untar and install all of them
> 3) create an Extensions directory (and while you're at it, make an import one too)
> 4) cp ../old_dist/Extensions/* Extensions
> 5) if you're using a binary distn., copy all the Python files you've accumulated in lib/python1.5 into the new lib/python1.5 directory
> 5a) if you're using a source distn this isn't necessary
> 6) mkdir new_distn/var/Data_old
> 6a) mv new_dist/var/Data.* new_dist/var/Data_old
> 7) cp ../old_dist/var/Data.* var/
> 8) use zpasswd to create a superuser id/pw of your choice
> 9) stop the old distn. (./stop)
> 10) start the new ./start distn.

Thanks. It worked perfectly. This seems like good material for a quick
little HOWTO at the new Zope site.

-Tim

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