Drupal 6.12 to 6.13 Upgrade Files Only
Sam308 - July 1, 2009 - 22:32
The following download is provided for those users who do not want to overwrite all of the files in their Drupal 6.12 installation. Using a file comparison utility, the following zip file contains only the date modified files for the latest release of Drupal 6.13.
Upload the new files to your Drupal site, then log into your site as the administrator and run update.php.
After running update.php, your Available Updates and Status Report functions will indicate that you are running the latest Drupal release version.
Drupal 6.12 to 6.13 Upgrade Files Only
Sam308
Thank you, Sam! I wish that
Thank you, Sam!
I wish that the Drupal-team would also see the necessity to provide a file that contains only the changed files of a new version.
The "official" way of upgrading Drupal (turn all modules off, overwrite whole drupal installation with new version, turn modules on and run update) cause often problems and e.g. killed my fivestar fields after my last upgrade to 6.12. I was able to reanimate fivestar only by making changes in the database. Not very user friendly and also very time consumpting to find such an error... Sorry, but if there's one thing I really hate working with Drupal it's to keep it up to date. The official upgrading procedure in Drupal feels more like Russian roulette to me and from my own experience there's a 20% chance that your page will not work after upgrading or have little errors that you sometimes find days after upgrading just by accident or by complaining visitors.
And no, I don't have any hacks to the Drupal core which may cause upgrading problems.
Agree with Noddy. And I
Agree with Noddy. And I believe the chance of 20% is actually much bigger :)
I see you posting all over
I see you posting all over the place about your failed update. How many updates have you actually performed? I can only speak for myself, but after 2 years of working with Drupal, and a lot of updates, I cannot confirm your assertion about the number of failures (or Noddy's original 20% either).
Rather than "crying wolf" all over the site, it would be more productive if you went back to your original posting and provided the information that Heine requested.
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Sam
Sam Raheb (Sam308)
It is truly odd, this works
I have spent the whole day trying to figure out why my upgrade ends up in a broken installation.
I have written a step by step process I follow every time there is an upgrade, but this time, upgrading to 6.13 from 6.12 my Drupal installation on one site stops working. The upgrade did go smoothly on my other Drupal server.
I had little faith on this working, since I had deep faith in my proven steps and procedure.
But downloading the zip file, unpacking it, changing the owner to the local user and then copying it over my 6.12 installation got me upgraded in 2 minutes, something I have been unable to achieve the whole day.
I just rolled back once again to 6.12 to try and figure out what the difference is, but as the day comes to an end, I believe I will use this unorthodox upgrade alternative this time and avoid starting the week "unpatched" :)
Thanks a lot :)
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Confirmation
Hi - this is wonderful news to me. As a fairly new user, I do think the update process is a tad ornery. Would it be possible to get a few confirmations from folks about how well this method works?
Thanks,
-jp
Located in sometimes-sunny Tofino
RE: Confirmation
JP:
This is Sam, the guy who is offering this Drupal upgrade download (Drupal 6.12 to 6.13 Upgrade Files Only)
Just to let you know, I have upgraded six (6) Drupal websites using this method and it works fine.
Sam308
Sam Raheb (Sam308)