By Sam308 on

The following download is provided for those users who do not want to overwrite all of the files in their Drupal 6.14 installation. Using a file comparison utility, the following zip file contains only the date modified files for the latest release of Drupal 6.15.

Upload the new files to your Drupal site, then log into your site as the administrator and run update.php. A link to the update.php file can be found on the Administer » Site building » Modules page.

After running update.php, your Available Updates and Status Report functions will indicate that you are running the latest Drupal release version.

Drupal 6.14 to 6.15 Upgrade Files Only

Note:
You can also download any of the other Drupal 6.x upgrade files from the same page. For reference purposes, see the following drupal.org support topic page: Drupal 6.x Upgrade - Files Only

Sam308

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archetypal’s picture

archetypal commented

Sam, thank you for your work. This approach appears to be a much simpler approach than that outlined in UPGRADE.txt.

I have two questions:

1. Are you aware of any utility with ftp capability that can upload all of the files at once without also adding again the already present folders?

2. I don't see much of critique of your approach and it's apparent that you've been offering this service for a while. If it is a safe/reasonable approach why do you think that it has not been adopted by the core developers - or do they use it but it is just not public knowledge?

Sam308’s picture

Sam308 commented

(1) I use CuteFTP 3.0.2 to upload the files to the webserver. Most FTP programs should not recreate folder if they already exist. They work the same as if you were copying files on your local computer.

(2) I don't know why this approach is not offered, but it should be. This approach works fine without problems and I have been using this method on many websites with incremental upgrades for years. See some of the following comments to past updates using this method. They should answer your questions.

Drupal 6.12 to 6.13 Upgrade Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/507682

Drupal 6.11 to 6.12 Upgrade Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/462634

Drupal 6.10 to 6.11 Upgrade Files Only
http://drupal.org/node/449382

Sam

JoOngle’s picture

JoOngle commented

I get the:
Security update required!error

Still...

raidorf’s picture

raidorf commented

i did abit of a hack install to cut the manhours by 1 hour,

it may be wrong and bad, please tell me why:

I backed up the sql database in 10 seconds wiht heidi sql, a nifty app.

I backed the old dru 6.14 folder

i made a new dru folder with 6.15 files,

i copied all my SITES folder from teh 6.14 to 6.15 including system, theme and module files,

and that was it, upgrade complete in 5 minutes!!!

no bugs as yet!

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Sam308 commented

Sounds like that method should work too. But make sure you run update.php to see if there were any database changes since the last version.

mirefoot’s picture

mirefoot commented

Brilliant, worked like a dream, well done