[Koha] Upgrade from Koha 3.00.00 to 3.0.6

[Susan Mustafa]

Chris,

I really am sorry to bother you with my many questions, but I would hope
that you can clarify something for me.

At the moment, my company is using only open-source software applications,
such as OpenSIS, Koha, OpenERP, etc.

The problem is, we got all those except Koha from Vendors [To match our
requirements/Modifications]

To further complicate things, the company wants to keep up with the updates
and upgrades that source forge produces.

How do I do all this?

>From what I understood, you are saying connect to the central git, checkout
a [development branch-where I can continue to make further modifications to
without the need to commit], and once an upgrade comes, then I will try to
MERGE my [development branch] + [central GIT].

Now for Koha - you are saying this is easier if I do a [Development Install,
rather than the recommended Production install]

Am I understanding your point, or am I way off?

I really wish I can read some resources out there that explain how to do
client modifications to opensource projects and still be up-to-date with
whatever the central repository has.  Any articles/websites would greatly
benefit me?

Best Regards,


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>wrote:

> * Susan Mustafa (susan.mustafa at gmail.com) wrote:
> >    Good Day,
> >
> >    Chris, I am using "SVN".  I made my own svn repository, and not using
> >    KOHA's git repository.
>
> Wow ... are you tracking git changes, and importing those into your svn
> repo? I fear you have made a real rod for your back if not.
> >
> >    Honestly, not sure of how to proceed.
> >
> >    I looked at doing merging yesterday and such, but then noticed that
> the
> >    final [Installed} koha, has the directory structure of
> >    intranet/opac/etc....
> >
> >    But the freshly unzipped tar of koha 3.0.6 has many many different
> >    packages.  So I assume I can't do merge between the two, but rather I
> have
> >    to [Install KOHA 3.0.6] on a new machine THEN try and merge that
> installed
> >    koha with [our installed koha].  Both then will have the same
> >    intranet/opac directory structure and merging is possible.
> >
> >    Does that make sense? IS there is an easier way?? hehe
> >
> I'm not sure there is an easier way ... if you had been using git you
> could checkout the rel_3_0 branch in git, and merge your local branch
> into it, and run the upgrader.
>
> But as you have a pretty non standard Koha installation, I suspect yes,
> you are going to have to do a lot of work manually merging files, I
> strongly recommend if you are going to do local changes, that in future
> you do a dev install, which runs out of your git checkout and track your
> changes that way. It will make your life a million times easier when you
> want to upgrade to 3.2.0
>
> Chris
>
> >    Regards,
> >
> >    On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz
> >
> >    wrote:
> >
> >      * Susan Mustafa (susan.mustafa at gmail.com) wrote:
> >      >    Good Day All,
> >
> >      Hi Susan
> >      >
> >      >    I would like to know how I can start the upgrade process from
> Koha
> >      3.00.00
> >      >    to Koha 3.0.6 [Kindly keep in mind that our version of Koha
> 3.0.0
> >      has a
> >      >    lot of in-house changes]
> >      >
> >      How have your changes been made, have they been checked into a local
> git
> >      repository?
> >      >    What steps should I follow? Resources to read?
> >      >
> >      Normally you would do an upgrade as outlined in one of the INSTALL
> >      files, but with local changes, its not as easy as that.
> >      >    I know there is the subversion vendor branches merge that I can
> do,
> >      but I
> >      >    am unsure if that will work and be sufficient.
> >      >
> >      We (the koha project) don't use subversion, do you mean git?
> >
> >      >    Kindly awaiting your response,
> >      >
> >      Chris
> >
> >      --
> >      Chris Cormack
> >      Catalyst IT Ltd.
> >      +64 4 803 2238
> >      PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
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