Hi Community,
I'm new to Drupal and I'm having no real developer's knowledge, but search/google is my friend ;).
Unfortunately, I can't find a straight forward answer to my issue/question:
Issue:
- I'm having installed a distribution of Drupal (Spark in my case)
- "Available updates" notifies me about a new core update (Security update: 7.16) being available for my current version (Drupal core 7.15)
- But there is no packaged (ready to download) version of my Distribution available, which already includes the new core update
Question:
- Should I update core manually anyways or should I wait for a newly packeged distribution of Spark?
- If i should update manually, please give me some detailled instructions.
I already tried upgrading manually on my local installation (by following instructions in "upgrade.txt"), but things got messed up.
I assume that's because I deleted everything except "sites/", so components of the distribution got deleted and weren't included in the core update. If updating Drupal core of a distribution manually is a good idea, please tell me how I can figure out which files to delete and which not.
Thank you very much from Germany,
FTC
Comments
Really no one willing to
Really no one willing to answer this simple question? :(
In general try to go to the
In general try to go to the issue queue for you distribution/installation/module and look/ask for answers
people are more active in specific issue queues
in your case you should have gone in http://drupal.org/project/issues/spark?status=All&categories=All
and opened up a support request (if no answer was found)
if its not too late I would assume that the following steps would usually do a pretty good update
- backup your site database - through phpmyadmin or using backup and migrate module
- don't erase any folders (I don't, I just overwrite files/folders)
- put site in maintenance mode (I usually skip this step)
- upload the latest drupal core
if you have customized .htaccess or robots.txt make sure you can make the changes to the new files
- upload an latest drupal modules (usually in sites/all/modules or profile/PROFILENAME/modules)
- run update.php
if all fails you can go back to your original distribution and overwrite with backup database
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GiorgosK
Web Development
Doc Spark to update Drupal Core
Please follow these instructions : https://www.drupal.org/node/1494290