[Owncloud] how to run owncloud from a git repo clone

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hi Johannes,

we strongly suggest to run only released version of ownCloud in a serious production environment. If you are a bit more adventurous than you can also install alpha and beta versions. 
But I strongly suggest to not use git master unless you are a developer or you want to help with QR because this can break at any time and could even eat your data.


Frank


On 31.08.2012, at 10:00, Johannes Harms <jjh_nospam at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> What is the best way to keep an owncloud installation up to date?
> 
> Background information: 
> My owncloud installation used to be a simple git clone from the repo on gitorious.org into my /var/www directory. To update my installation, it sufficed to run `git fetch; git checkout tag_name;` on my server. Yesterday I switched my repo URL from gitorious to github and found that my owncloud calendar did not work anymore. I guess this is because of the new project structure on github, where some (but not all) apps have been moved to a separate repository.
> 
> Potential solutions:
> * I could download and extract the .zip-files from owncloud.org/releases, but this is annoying and dangerous because it may accidentally overwrite stuff, and it makes reverting difficult in case an update fails. 
> * Of course, I could setup my own git repository and manually download and extract the .zip-files into this repository. This solves the problem of accidentally overwriting files and enables me to revert to previous versions. But it feels unnecessarily cumbersome. 
> 
> Maybe the owncloud project could make these things easier by either:
> * Using git submodules to tie the bits and pieces together, or:
> * Alternatively, providing a releases repository to pull the releases from
> 
> Also, where is the build script? The hudson build tasks seem to be using ant, but I can't find the build.xml files.
> 
> thank you for bearing with me!
> Johannes
> 
> 
> 
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