On 7/27/07, Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote:
Cog Rusty wrote:
Well, update.php does not include older updates, so if one has an older 4.x site (let's say 4.5 or 4.4), he cannot upgrade directly, but first go to an intermediate version. I have not looked into it, but update.php might have problems, or would not inform the user, if he has such an old system that has no updates in the actual update.php /update.inc/*.install files code.
The question remains, because how would it help to upgrade such an old version first to 5.1 and not to 5.2?
An advice which seemed safe so far was (a) never skip major versions (b) when stepping to the next major version use its latest minor version, assuming that it would be more "bug-fixed"
Absolutely agreed.
Just to add in: I upgraded a few sites from 4.6 to 5.1. One had no issues at all. The other had some issues mainly related to data set size (database too big) and varbinary/UTF8. But the point is: there was no need to install 4.7 and upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7 first, then install 5.1 and upgrade to that. -- 2bits.com http://2bits.com Drupal development, customization and consulting.