<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 7/27/07, Gabor Hojtsy <<a href="mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu">gabor@hojtsy.hu</a>> wrote:
<br>> Cog Rusty wrote:<br>> >> Well, update.php does not include older updates, so if one has an older<br>> >> 4.x site (let's say 4.5 or 4.4), he cannot upgrade directly, but first<br>> >> go to an intermediate version. I have not looked into it, but
update.php<br>> >> might have problems, or would not inform the user, if he has such an old<br>> >> system that has no updates in the actual update.php/update.inc/*.install<br>> >> files code.<br>
> ><br>> > The question remains, because how would it help to upgrade such an old<br>> > version first to 5.1 and not to 5.2?<br>> ><br>> > An advice which seemed safe so far was<br>> > (a) never skip major versions
<br>> > (b) when stepping to the next major version use its latest minor<br>> > version, assuming that it would be more "bug-fixed"<br>><br>> Absolutely agreed.<br></blockquote></div><br>Just to add in: I upgraded a few sites from
4.6 to 5.1. One had no issues<br>at all. The other had some issues mainly related to data set size (database<br>too big) and varbinary/UTF8.<br><br>But the point is: there was no need to install 4.7 and upgrade from 4.6 to
<br>4.7 first, then install 5.1 and upgrade to that.<br>-- <br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a><br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal development, customization and consulting.