[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.0 released (Milan Zazrivec)

[Philip Mather]

>> > Good question...we're at 0.6 as well, so looking to upgrade now and
>> > curious about the procedure...
>> >
>> > Dan
>>
>> I'd suggest waiting for one of the Redhat devs to respond ....
>>
>> But from memory and previous experience with the db schema migrations
>> I don't think they take into account any version but the previous...
>> so a stepped upgrade would be needed.... I think.
>
> Schema upgrades should work from any previous version.
>
> Upgrading directly from 0.6 to 1.0 should not be a problem, just use
> instructions from:
>
>    https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade08
>
> Just remember two things:
>
> 1. Read 0.7 as 0.6, 0.8 as 1.0.
>
> 2. Package upgrade step, use
>
>    # yum -x spacewalk-postgresql upgrade
>
> rather than plain
>
>    # yum upgrade
>
> Hope this helps.
> -Milan

Ooo-er! Last standing advice from a red hat bod on this list was to go
via each intermediate stage which is why I chucked a note about it
onto the wiki...
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UserDocs#UpgradeNotes.

Either way, I'd make a careful backup of database and code base first.

Anyway, 1.0 release = YAY! :^)

-- 
Regards,
   Phil