[support] FW: Upgrading Drupal from 5.19 to 6.13

[David Christensen]

Metzler, David wrote:
> The answer is probably not, but you won't find out for sure until you
> test.   

Thank you for your reply. :-)


Unfortunately, it looks like Drupal regression testing is not stable
yet:

    http://testing.drupal.org/


> My Older sites often run into these problems as parallel paths may or
> may not have the same update numbers with modules if theyre in
> different branches.
...
> For example, suppose you have the actions module installed, and then
> the actions module moves into core.  The core upgrade hook will need
> to create the actions tables, but if you already had the 5.x actions
> module installed, you're going to already have those tables.
> ...
> [Y]ou can run a schema comparison between a fresh 6.x install and a
> 5.x upgrade and see if there are any differences in the core tables
> definitions that need to be corrected.  

1.  I'd call that a bug.

2.  A Drupal user shouldn't have to deal with issues at that level.


Oh, well.  I can't complain because I got what I paid for ($0).


David