Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed upgrade to 0.5.x series

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Von: Sebastian Hilbert <address@hidden>

> Every so often a new GNUmed series is released.
> 
> This involves a database upgrade during the installation process and is 
> described at http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/ServerUpgrade2. Last
> but no 
> least it involves upgrading you client config file so it will let you
> select 
> the new database at client startup.

The new client will remove from its backend profiles pick list those 
which do not point to a proper database version (by name). This,
however, only happens if NOT run with the --debug option (IOW,
in production mode).

In effect in normal operation one will only see those profiles
that should be correct for this client. That will at least make
people *wonder* where their profiles went after upgrading. Thus
they will find out, adjust, and later know.

There is no safe and sane way to auto-upgrade existing profiles - nor
will this be wanted in many cases. But the above behaviour makes
things safer.

The v11 database (for client 0.5) will also include a gm-apply_db_fixups
script which makes it a lot more convenient to execute the last paragraph
of http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/ServerUpgrade2

Karsten
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