Sounds like a poorly designed package. Wordpress does a good job of allowing back end updates without impacting the services provided, even with database changes.
Part of a well designed and maintained system is the ability to do painless upgrades. Jared Mauch On Jan 12, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cacti/OpenNMS are good examples -- after a yum update to a new version, > you must manually invoke, a potentially dangerous "installer" program or > web page has to be used, after a new update, config files, or database > schema have to be edited or patched by hand; until you manually take some > action to "fix" the config, the application is broken after update. > As soon as you attempt to restart the application it will shutdown OK, but > not come back up.
