[support] upgrading to 5.8. One question.

[KOBA | Hans Rossel]

Interesting discussion.

I also never disable modules when upgrading. I have never lost data
when I disabled them originally, but as far as I remember some
configurations of CCK were lost. But that was in the early days of cck
and Drupal 4.7. Since then I never disabled modules and never had
problems (always with backup ready). Its also quite annoying when you
have more modules uploaded than enabled to have to write down which
modules are needed for each installation.

it could be good to hear from somebody who always does it right and
disables all modules before upgrading that it has never caused
problems, just to add some counterweight to this thread.

Hans
www.koba.be

2008/7/14, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>:
> Quoting Brian Choc <bchoc at t4tcolorado.org>:
>
>> I found that disabling modules during minor upgrades causes data loss
>> consistently under specific circumstances, during earlier updates (e.g.
>> 5.2,
>> 5.3).  I observed that any module-supplied node type would drop all the
>> data
>> in any assigned CCK fields when disabling & upgrading.  For example, if
>> one
>> had a simplenews node with an "editor" cck field attached to it, one would
>> lose all "editor" information.  However, the basic simplenews node data
>> would be kept, as would any cck fields attached to standard nodes.  Only
>> the
>> combo of cck + module-supplied-node-type seemed to cause problems.
>>
>
> So what you're indicating is that modules implementing hook_node_info
> will loose the node_type row and thusly the nodes of that type.  This
> would then be a critical bug in the core base system.  Or perhaps your
> incident is related to only one of the CCK fields modules and then the
> critical bug would lie with that module.  Disabling a module should not
> under any circumstance cause data to be removed.
>
> That said, I do not disable modules either when upgrading from Drupal
> version 5.x to Drupal version 5.y.  However, that isn't the documented
> method and the documented method needs to work.
>
> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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>
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