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

funtheclock’s picture

Really no one willing to answer this simple question? :(

GiorgosK’s picture

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

donjoze136’s picture

Please follow these instructions : https://www.drupal.org/node/1494290