[support] Questions around 6.16 to 6.22 upgrade

[Walt Daniels]

The Upgrade.txt is mostly about going from D5 to D6, not incremental updates
of core in D6. Just download the latest D6 on top of the existing code and
run update. You might want to do this in maintenance mode but I have never
had a problem just doing it live.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I am about to embark on upgrading a Drupal 6.16 site to 6.22.  I have
> only recently taken on the existing (6.16) site and I'm still finding my
> way around a bit.  There are a couple of things that I find a bit
> worrying:-
>
>    There's no UPGRADE.txt file in Drupal core, I've unpacked the one in
>    the 6.22 tar archive though so I can work from that.  It seems
>    fairly straightforward if a bit complex.
>
>    When logged in as administrator on the site I can't see the Home »
>    Dashboard » Site building » Modules page, though I can get to it by
>    entering the URL directly into my browser's address bar.  Is there
>    some sort of configuration option that would enable/disable this?
>    If not how do I get it back?
>
>
> The UPGRADE.txt file step five says "Disable all custom and
> contributed modules.", how does one know which modules are custom and
> contributed?  Is there any easy/automated way of remembering which
> modules are enabled so that one can turn on all the right ones again
> after the upgrade?  Or does one just print out the web page and do it
> manually?
>
> --
> Chris Green
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