Modified a bit. This should show for anyone who has GnuCash installed. The 2.7.3 ebuild I have in my overlay does have a postinst note about this as well, but I think this is important enough to tell them as soon as possible and on systems that may never have had GnuCash installed but will be working with files/databases that are made by GnuCash 2.6.
Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> Posted: 2018-01-10 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: app-office/gnucash Along with changes to updates to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the schema [1] it uses for both databases and files. GnuCash will automatically modify the file or database in place upon open. Therefore, it is imperative that you back up any files or databases before using GnuCash 2.7 in case you run into an issue and want or need to revert back to 2.6. Instructions for backing up are as follows: For XML (plain files): $ cp /path/to/file.gnucash /path/to/file.gnucash.bak For MySQL: $ mysqldump gnucash_db | mysql gnucash_db_bak For PostgreSQL: $ createdb -U dbadmin -T gnucash_db -O gnucash_user gnucash_db_bak For SQLite: $ cp /path/to/gnucash/sqlite.file.gnucash /path/to/gnucash/sqlite.file.gnucash.bak [1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a
Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> Posted: 2018-01-10 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: app-office/gnucash Along with changes to updates to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the schema [1] it uses for both databases and files. GnuCash will automatically modify the file or database in place upon open. Therefore, it is imperative that you back up any files or databases before using GnuCash 2.7 in case you run into an issue and want or need to revert back to 2.6. Instructions for backing up are as follows: For XML (plain files): $ cp /path/to/file.gnucash /path/to/file.gnucash.bak For MySQL: $ mysqldump gnucash_db | mysql gnucash_db_bak For PostgreSQL: $ createdb -U dbadmin -T gnucash_db -O gnucash_user gnucash_db_bak For SQLite: $ cp /path/to/gnucash/sqlite.file.gnucash /path/to/gnucash/sqlite.file.gnucash.bak [1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a
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