[Owncloud] Updater app

[Victor Dubiniuk]

Hi ownCloud,

I see $subject has been downloaded over 20 times so far.
I consider the update experience to be successful  since I'm still alive. :)
But I really appreciate some feedback even negative one.

As a next step I'm going to get rid of the 'backup' dir in the OC root and
move it into the 'data'  dir.
Pros are:
- 'data' dir is not involved into the update;
- 'data' dir is inaccessible from the web;
- extra dir in OC root makes it cumbersome.

Does anyone see any cons?

---
Victor

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Victor Dubiniuk
<victor.dubiniuk at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The webinstall script uses link to the recent release in *zip *package so
> I change the updater to use the same URL.
>
> The app has been published for beta testing:
> http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/Updater?content=153278
>
> ---
> Victor
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Victor,
>>
>> wow. That´s very cool.
>> It would be great if more people would test this to see if it works under
>> all circumstances.
>>
>>
>> Very nice :-)
>>
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On 22.07.2012, at 15:28, Victor Dubiniuk <victor.dubiniuk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I started ownCloud updater [1] development and it is quite usable now.
>> >
>> > It works this way:
>> > - creates backup directory inside the ownCloud root.
>> > - extracts the package content into the backup/packageVersion
>> > - makes the copy of the current instance (except data dir) to
>> backup/currentVersion-randomstring
>> > - adds to the include path all required paths relative to
>> backup/currentVersion-randomstring
>> > - moves all folders except the  data dir from the current instance to
>> backup/tmp
>> > - moves all folders from backup/packageVersion to the current version
>> > - copy old config.php to the config directory.
>> >
>> > It takes into account that apps and 3rdparty directories can be placed
>> somewhere outside OC root directory but I haven't tested it with multiple
>> app directories yet.
>> >
>> > What is in TODO list:
>> > - cleanup after the upgrade is completed
>> > - ability to revert already moved directories on error.
>> >
>> > The only issue is related to the package format: as soon as the release
>> packages are provided in bz2 it's not possible for the most of environments
>> to extract the package content due to the bz support missing.
>> > For now it is required to fill in 2 variables (url and version of the
>> package) explicitly in updater/ajax/admin.php
>> >
>> > I wouldn't mind if anybody clone it or even rewrite to be merged into
>> the master since I'm about to jump into the train.
>> > Another bad news is that I promised my wife not to write a single line
>> of code during the vacations ;)
>> > I'll be back on the August, 8 so it won't last too long.
>> >
>> > [1] https://gitorious.org/vicdeo/updater
>> >
>> > Victor Dubiniuk.
>> >
>>
>
>
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