Re: Counting bugs...


Subject: Re: Counting bugs...
From: Jesper Skov (jskov@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 16:11:37 CST


>>>>> "Sam" == Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu> writes:

Sam> Upgrading bugzilla is an excellent idea. Unfortunately, I've
Sam> never adminned a bugzilla system before, and thus am not entirely
Sam> sure what I would need to do. Does it just involve replacing the
Sam> current contents of the bugzilla directory (which is just a bunch
Sam> of perl scripts) with the newest version from Mozilla CVS? Do I
Sam> have to change the MySQL setup (eeek)?

Sam> Anyone dealt with this before?

Nope, but here's my (clueless) suggestions:

See
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/bugzilla/docs/FAQ.html#BZINSTALLATION
for how to do a backup of the existing database.

Then install the newest mozilla in some other directory and try to
bring it up. I must admit to not knowing if the mySQL database is
global on a box:

 yes: try to access the newly installed bugzilla scripts and see if it
      can make sense of the existing DB. File a test bug or two.

 no: import the backup in the new tree. Then follow the above.

If anything goes wrong, blame someone else :)

Jesper



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