RFC: EOL of mediawiki from EL-4, EL-5, EL-6
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Tue Dec 14 05:38:43 UTC 2010
FYI, just tested moving from the base mediawiki package to
mediawiki116. Upgrade process was as follows (in a nutshell):
Mediawiki install at /srv/syswiki/wiki/
1. Back up
2. mv /srv/syswiki /root/syswiki
3. Followed instructions in README.RPM to create a new wiki site
(under /srv). Script to create symlinks worked great save for
StartProfiler.php which didn't exist (it was StartProfiler.sample)
4. Copied my original LocalSettings.php back and modified "$IP"
variable.
5. Reviewed RELEASE-NOTES for 1.15 and 1.16 for necessary config
changes.
6. Changed to "maintenance" directory (now
/srv/syswiki/wiki/maintenance) and ran the following:
MW_INSTALL_PATH=/srv/syswiki/wiki php update
7. Corrected issue with Ldap extension.
8. Fixed my Apache config which was aliasing the "skins" directory to
/usr/share/mediawiki/skins
All is working great! Pretty easy.
I notice a few RPM-packaged extensions are tied to the original
mediawiki package -- mediawiki-ParserFunctions for example.
Maybe /usr/share/mediawiki would be a good "generic" directory for
non-version specific extension? Or should we get them repackaged per
version?
For now I'll just install from source most likely.
Ray
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