0.9 Upgrade command failed

Henry Wright

we could have a pre-release channel that upgrades a week before a new milestone launches, so some users can test it out and report back

I'd be happy to do this. I already run master locally, and upgrade X.X.X locally before doing anything on my production site.

How would you let us know something is ready for testing?

julian

We develop on master, so if you run master you wouldn't experience the issues we'd have as well.

Ideally it would be a site administrator who runs on stable, but when requested, will duplicate his db, and run the upgrade from, for example, v0.8.2 to v0.9.0

hukadan

@julian said:

Ideally it would be a site administrator who runs on stable, but when requested, will duplicate his db, and run the upgrade from, for example, v0.8.2 to v0.9.0

I would not mind doing that. Actually, I already do that. It is part of my upgrade process before upgrading the real forum. I am sure I am not the only one. I am late for the 0.9.0 but I would be OK to give it a try for the next release.

Phate

@scottalanmiller said:

Ah sorry, the probably....

git fetch; git pull, npm i; ./nodebb upgrade; git checkout v0.9.x; git pull; npm install; ./nodebb stop; ./nodebb upgrade; ./nodebb start; ./nodebb log

Sorry for the newb post.....

I've tried to upgrade 3 times now each time breaking my install. Is the above the way to go????

Trying to upgrade from v0.7.1-dev to v0.9.0.

Please help?

anmol gupta

Bringing base dependencies up to date... OK
Updating NodeBB data store schema.
10/11 12:39 [15868] - info: Beginning database schema update
10/11 12:39 [15868] - error: [upgrade] NodeBB upgrade could not complete, as your database schema is too far out of date.
10/11 12:39 [15868] - error: [upgrade] Please ensure that you did not skip any minor version upgrades.
10/11 12:39 [15868] - error: [upgrade] (e.g. v0.1.x directly to v0.3.x)
OK
```
                     NodeBB Upgrade Complete!
```

scottalanmiller

@Phate said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Ah sorry, the probably....

git fetch; git pull, npm i; ./nodebb upgrade; git checkout v0.9.x; git pull; npm install; ./nodebb stop; ./nodebb upgrade; ./nodebb start; ./nodebb log

Sorry for the newb post.....

I've tried to upgrade 3 times now each time breaking my install. Is the above the way to go????

Trying to upgrade from v0.7.1-dev to v0.9.0.

Please help?

You need to go through the 0.8.x series first.

scottalanmiller

git fetch; git pull, npm i; ./nodebb upgrade; git checkout v0.8.x; git pull; npm install; ./nodebb stop; ./nodebb upgrade; ./nodebb start; ./nodebb log

Make sure that things are okay then...

git fetch; git pull, npm i; ./nodebb upgrade; git checkout v0.9.x; git pull; npm install; ./nodebb stop; ./nodebb upgrade; ./nodebb start; ./nodebb log

exodo

@scottalanmiller said:

git fetch; git pull, npm i; ./nodebb upgrade; git checkout v0.8.x; git pull; npm install; ./nodebb stop; ./nodebb upgrade; ./nodebb start; ./nodebb log

Make sure that things are okay then...

git fetch; git pull, npm i; ./nodebb upgrade; git checkout v0.9.x; git pull; npm install; ./nodebb stop; ./nodebb upgrade; ./nodebb start; ./nodebb log

So easy lol

Bri

@julian said:

@Kowlin Possibly... I made the mistake of using peer dependencies awhile back, and it's been nothing short of a headache. The idea in and of itself is fantastic, but the implementation was not suitable for a project like ours.

So are we doing away with peer dependencies?

julian

Depends, why do you need them in your plugin?

Bri

No I don't need them, but curious since they're causing trouble

julian

The way npm handles peer dependencies left much to be desired, especially in a development landscape like ours where versions go up regularly and different rates compared to plugins.

Specifically, if a module A required a peer dependency B with a fairly strict version (e.g. ~0.15.0), then if that dependency got updated to v0.16.0 or above, then any future attempts to install module A would throw a peer dependency error and abort the npm installation, leaving NodeBB in a state that would not run. That's not so good for non-developers