Glad to hear it! Please let us know if we can help with anything else. David
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM Josh Gagnon <josh.gag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for the sanity check, David. I trimmed down my site to contain > "just the data" and - importantly - stopped trying to go from 2.5.16 to 3.X > and went straight to 7.0.3. Now it's up and running! > -Josh > > On Monday, January 20, 2025 at 11:14:25 AM UTC-5 David Trowbridge wrote: > >> That's correct. Drop the database, import the old one, and replace the >> site directory (at least the settings_local.py file and uploaded media >> directories; web server conf you'll need to look at and decide what to do). >> The upgrade procedure will migrate the database schema and perform any >> necessary updates to the config. >> >> David >> >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM Josh Gagnon <josh....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Does this mean literally dropping the reviewboard database in the new >>> server and replacing it with the reviewboard database from the old server? >>> And the same with the entire site directory, conf files and all? (Tweaking >>> any new names or passwords for the new db server.) >>> -Josh >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 2:51:30 PM UTC-4 David Trowbridge wrote: >>> >>>> Since you have to upgrade the world, you may find it easiest to set up >>>> a completely new system with a brand new install of Review Board. Once >>>> you've verified that everything is set up correctly, you can replace the >>>> database and site directory with the ones from your old server, and run >>>> rb-site upgrade to migrate the database schema to the latest. >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:42 PM G Law <catch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Great thank you. I found that adding an upgraded python while doing >>>>> the ugprade confuses the upgrade and python 3 scripts were failing running >>>>> referencing python2.7/site-packages. Also upgrading to python3 breaks >>>>> 2.5.16. So, upgrade python3 and reviewboard will pull 2.5.16 into a >>>>> working new version? >>>>> >>>>> You're not wrong, it's way overdue. We have to upgrade mysql and the >>>>> linux version as well. It's a big mess. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks again! >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 2:17:17 PM UTC-4 David Trowbridge wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You definitely need to make sure that everything is using the same >>>>> Python version. In particular, if you're using something like Apache, you >>>>> need to make sure that your mod_wsgi is built with the same Python version >>>>> as everything that is installed. >>>>> >>>>> Moving to Python 3 is definitely annoying, but I'd highly recommend >>>>> it--Python 2 has not received any security updates in over 4 years. >>>>> >>>>> David >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:13 PM G Law <catch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look at logs. I was trying to go >>>>> to 4, but when seeing issues, tried something more conservative. Bumping >>>>> 2.5.16 to 6 means I'd have to switch to python 3. When I tried upgrading >>>>> to 4 I found an issue where it was conflicting between using 2 and 3. >>>>> Perhaps I was doing something wrong? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> Gabe >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 5:08:31 PM UTC-4 David Trowbridge wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The "taking a nap" error means that Review Board is crashing >>>>> somewhere. Can you check the reviewboard and web server logs for errors? >>>>> >>>>> I'd definitely suggest just going straight from your original version >>>>> to your target version (preferably 6). Doing upgrades to intermediate >>>>> versions is not necessary and just adds additional places where errors can >>>>> occur. >>>>> >>>>> David >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM G Law <catch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> >>>>> I am tryin to upgrade from 2.5.16 on a CentOS 7 machine to anything on >>>>> RHEL8. Ultimately my only option is to upgrade in place on the CentOS 7 >>>>> box. I've been trying to do the upgrade on a VM clone and have been so far >>>>> unsuccessful. >>>>> >>>>> I had various issues going straight to 4.0 (where I could switch to >>>>> python 3) so tried to see if I could try jumping to 3 first. >>>>> >>>>> When using easy-install to upgrade to 3.0 I got an error when hitting >>>>> the browser which said I needed to use the same way to upgrade as I did to >>>>> install. The install was done via rpm, and I can't find any other rpms >>>>> other than 2.5.17. Reviewboard does not officially support rpms. >>>>> >>>>> When I tried again, I once again found errors unless I did the >>>>> following order. >>>>> >>>>> easy_install -U reviewboard==3.0.26 >>>>> >>>>> easy_install -U reviewboard==3.0.1 >>>>> >>>>> rb-site --version >>>>> >>>>> Shhh... Review Board is taking a nap. >>>>> >>>>> You hit a HTTP 500 error, which means something might be wrong. If >>>>> this is a temporary outage, Review Board should wake up soon. >>>>> >>>>> Or maybe you've found a bug. If so, good job! Please report it to your >>>>> admins. They'll be able to help you out. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> # rb-site --version >>>>> >>>>> rb-site 3.0.1 >>>>> >>>>> Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 4 2017, 00:39:18) >>>>> >>>>> [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)] >>>>> >>>>> Installed to >>>>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ReviewBoard-3.0.1-py2.7.egg/reviewboard >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Doing a pip install there was no reviewboard in site-packages, not >>>>> really sure where it went. There is only one version of python installed >>>>> at this time. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know what the issue could be, and how to get around this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thank you! >>>>> Gabe >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >>>>> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >>>>> Want us to host Review Board for you? 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