Hello,
Thanks to all who helped me move my Drupal 4.7 site to 5.9. Now that the base site is upgraded (this is a test site btw) I need to think about modules:
1) I had taxonomy_access in the old site. How do I upgrade a module? I have the new taxonomy_access (the one for 5.9) uploaded but I haven't activated it in case that is the wrong thing to do.
2) How do I get rid of old modules that I don't want to use anymore? Like the eCommerce module. Can I just drop all ec_* tables? Ditto for eJournal and OrganicGroups. These are all modules which I *thought* would help me but didn't and I don't want to keep them.
Lastly, do you think it's alright if I stay with Drupal 5.9 until next year? The taxonomy_access module is not stable for Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if I should upgrade or not.
Thanks.
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 15:51:38 Daniel Carrera wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to all who helped me move my Drupal 4.7 site to 5.9. Now that the base site is upgraded (this is a test site btw) I need to think about modules:
Actually, 5.10 was released a few days ago.
- How do I get rid of old modules that I don't want to use anymore?
Like the eCommerce module. Can I just drop all ec_* tables? Ditto for eJournal and OrganicGroups. These are all modules which I *thought* would help me but didn't and I don't want to keep them.
The module's uninstall hook should (theoretically) take care of that. You could also do it manually though, by peeking inside the module's .install file and seeing which tables it creates when you first enable it. Then, just issue a drop table command.
Lastly, do you think it's alright if I stay with Drupal 5.9 until next year? The taxonomy_access module is not stable for Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if I should upgrade or not.
Thanks.
That's the right thing to do. Just update to 5.10.
Vasileios Lourdas wrote:
Actually, 5.10 was released a few days ago.
I hope the upgrade from 5.9 to 5.10 is easy.
The module's uninstall hook should (theoretically) take care of that. You could also do it manually though, by peeking inside the module's .install file and seeing which tables it creates when you first enable it. Then, just issue a drop table command.
I have no idea how to get to the uninstall "hook", but I can look at .install files, so I think I'll go for that option. Thanks for the help.
Daniel.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera@zmsl.com wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to all who helped me move my Drupal 4.7 site to 5.9. Now that the base site is upgraded (this is a test site btw) I need to think about modules:
- I had taxonomy_access in the old site. How do I upgrade a module? I
have the new taxonomy_access (the one for 5.9) uploaded but I haven't activated it in case that is the wrong thing to do.
If you have uploaded the 5.x version of the module, go to admin/build/modules, enable the module, and then run update.php
- How do I get rid of old modules that I don't want to use anymore?
Like the eCommerce module. Can I just drop all ec_* tables? Ditto for eJournal and OrganicGroups. These are all modules which I *thought* would help me but didn't and I don't want to keep them.
In Drupal 6 there is an "Uninstall" tab in admin/build/modules. After you disable a module, go to that tab and you will see an option to uninstall the module's tables (assuming that the module has implemented that feature).
Lastly, do you think it's alright if I stay with Drupal 5.9 until next year? The taxonomy_access module is not stable for Drupal 6, so I'm not sure if I should upgrade or not.
It is fine to stay with 5.9 (or better 5.10) until the modules you need are available. To make sure that a future upgrade will be easy, use only 5.x modules which also have a 6.x version under development, or are expected to have one.
Thanks.
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Cog Rusty wrote:
- I had taxonomy_access in the old site. How do I upgrade a module? I
have the new taxonomy_access (the one for 5.9) uploaded but I haven't activated it in case that is the wrong thing to do.
If you have uploaded the 5.x version of the module, go to admin/build/modules, enable the module, and then run update.php
Ok. Sounds easy enough.
It is fine to stay with 5.9 (or better 5.10) until the modules you need are available. To make sure that a future upgrade will be easy, use only 5.x modules which also have a 6.x version under development, or are expected to have one.
Ok, will do. I'll stick to modules that have a 6.x version in the works.
Thanks for the help.
Daniel.
You can use the update status module to monitor when your installed modules have versions for a targeted Drupal core.
http://drupal.org/project/update_status
Cog Rusty wrote:
It is fine to stay with 5.9 (or better 5.10) until the modules you need are available. To make sure that a future upgrade will be easy, use only 5.x modules which also have a 6.x version under development, or are expected to have one.
Ok, will do. I'll stick to modules that have a 6.x version in the works.
Thanks for the help.
Daniel.
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 17:10 +0300, Cog Rusty wrote:
In Drupal 6 there is an "Uninstall" tab in admin/build/modules. After you disable a module, go to that tab and you will see an option to uninstall the module's tables (assuming that the module has implemented that feature).
FWIW Drupal 5 has that feature too.
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