Drupal upgrade D5 to D6 (w CCK & Views)
Ever seen footage of the Exxon Valdez dashed upon the shores of Prince William Sound? That's kind of what the wreckage from our experimental upgrade looked like. The seabirds of our data gasping for breath, the diverse marine life of our content types covered with tarry corruption. It was not a pretty sight (or site).
Has anyone done a successful upgrade from D5 to D6 with their data, content types, and views intact? If so, how did you do it and what instructions did you use?
In our case, it was an attempted upgrade from D5.10 to D6.4
We found many instructions, even on drupal.org (here only as a "screencast"), but none provided flawless migration. After the update.php, we had a list of errors that was longer than my arm. And after correcting the errors, neither the views nor the content types worked properly.
Wes
I keep getting fatal errors cck, locations, views
I have striped my 5.10 install down to the minimum to not lose my cck data, CCK, Locations, Views, pathauto. I have upgraded these modules to latest stable versions. I keep getting fatal errors during update to 6. I wish I would have written them down. I think one of them referred to location.views.
Hoping for Redemption
Hi Wes,
I'm helping upgrade www.cctv.org from D5 to D6. My Pegevent module that drives production scheduling, airtime display, etc. was fairly easy to upgrade once I reworked a few things. The views kinda came through largely mangled, but I managed to recover and rework them. I think the CCK migration was a lot of hand work. I'm working on trying to get the CCK types from 5 exported to 6 so they'll work in an install file and we can do a general release of our code base. Having some difficulties on this last piece.
I think there were so many changes that the D5 to D6 bump is hard to implement programatically. Hopefully the D6 to D7 transition is easier. If you're philosophically inclined, see http://drupal.org/node/311893 which discusses disparity of versions, etc.
Good luck to us all ;-)
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Joe Golden
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