[support] drupal upgrades? automated?

[Ursula Pieper]

Automated updates are a tricky thing, because they might break things in
contributed modules. I have a development and a production site of each of
my sites. I first update the development site, run a few pre-defined
checks, and then update the production site. And if something broke on the
development site, I first look for a fix. And yes, things do break.

I use drush for backup and updates, just a couple of commands, no
time-consuming pointy-clicky business.

Ursula

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Recently I got an email from my drupal 7.10 site informing me that
> there was an update available to version 7.12. The link took me to a
> pink hued page where I was told that it was advisable to correct a
> security problem by upgrading to 7.12. I am then informed that there
> is no automated upgrade, but that instructions are available to
> manually back up files and databases then carry on with a manual
> upgrade.
>
> I see this as a real issue with the design of Drupal. It is all very
> well to find vulnerabilities and announce them, with fixes, but if
> there is no simple, automated way to apply the fixes there will
> inevitably be a lot of unpatched cms's out there running outdated and
> known-vulnerable versions of Drupal.
>
> The developers may, for all I know, be working hard on an automated
> update and patch mechanism. Can anyone tell me if this is the case? Am
> I doomed to continue manually applying security fixes as long as I
> persist with Drupal? I dumped Win95 a long time ago and have really no
> wish to regress this way.
>
> Dave
>
>
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