[drupal-support] Automatic updates check and upgrades

[Andrei Emeltchenko]

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Andrei Emeltchenko wrote:
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>>I use drupal for a long time and performed several upgrades. I just think
>>would it be better to automate update using some "check for update" button.
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>>Is it too lame?
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>Frankly, I think it is pretty lame. If people want a package system they
>should a Linux distro for which drupal is available as a package.
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Then I have to ask my web hosting to give me the root password :)

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>>Also each time I need to rewrite conf.php file after untarring archive
>>which is not handy.
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>You should have renamed it to your.site.com.php. :)
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>>Since this info doesn't change during upgrades I propose to rename
>>conf.php to config.php
>>and store there persistent information which will not be rewritten by
>>installing a new source.
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>conf.php is now named settings.php and lives in sites/your.site.com/
>directory.
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In 4.5.2 from 2005-01-15 it is still conf.php

>The support list is the wrong place for feature requests. Use the issue
>tracker instead.
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>Cheers,
>	Gerhard
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I just wanted to check is there more elegant way to do it. At least with 
configuration
file it seems I found it.

Regards,
Andrei