[Owncloud] Update and Upgrade procedure or 'how I upgraded to 4.5 (released version)'

[Diederik de Haas]

Excellent instructions! 
Thank you very much :-)

Cheers,
  Diederik

On Thursday 11 October 2012 15:23:55 Michael Göhler wrote:
> Hi Diderick,
> 
> when you extract a tar archive without -p option the extracted files
> ownership is changed do your user-id and primary group-id.
> 
> When your config directory is a symlink, your tar command has to have
> the -h switch, otherwise it is overwritten by the tar extract. (testet
> this right away)
> 
> For me the tar archive should be packed without the leading owncloud
> folder. Because someone may have installed owncloud in web-root like
> me. As a workaround we can use the "--strip-components=1" switch.
> 
> So this is how I would do it:
> 
> first change user to www-data and go to your owncloud root directory
> 
> backup old installation
> tar -cjvf /some/backup/dir/owncloud_backup.tar.bz2
> 
> install new version
> tar --strip-components=1 -xjvf /some/download/dir/owncloud-4.5.0.tar.bz2
> (in your case you may need -h switch here)
> 
> Maybe you also need to change the ownership of all files from root to
> www-data first. (chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/owncloud)
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:22:01 +0200
> 
> schrieb Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org>:
> > My advice: remove the "Unpack the release tarball in the owncloud
> > directory" from the update and upgrade procedure ASAP and replace it
> > my extracting it in a temp directory and then *copy* the
> > file/directories into your owncloud installation directory over your
> > existing installation (ie remove step 4) if you don't want to change
> > all ownership/permissions again.