Automate drupal upgrades?

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JoshuaRogers: "use at your own risk", "please BACKUP files and db before using this", and so on ;-)

However, I'll respect your choice.
About 20 days ago I tried to code it in my own, but I did get permission errors using the ftp_* functions and then I did suspended the work.

I'm going to take a look at plugin_manager source code, to retry to complete it.
If it works, I'll send the source code to you. :-)

Giovanni

Yes, this would be something definately looking into accomplishing if we really wanted to push this module into core itself.

+10

I was just discussing this here: http://drupal.org/node/360656
I'm positive to drupal-core being updated from inside itself, and I don't mind you placing 2 pages of warnings! :)

it is a great module the one you are trying to implement, keep up

Subscribing, interesting in this a lot also!
Greetings, Martijn

I think some kind of rollback mechanism would be essential. In case of unrecoverable errors it should automatically roll back within two cron runs unless cancelled. For my own updates, I implement a manual rollback mechanism by installing the new core files in a new directory, then re-point my domain docroot.

Wordpress I believe is setup to auto upgrade and does it very well so why shouldn't Drupal have this capability, can't be too difficult if WP can do it.

For details of how WordPress does this, see:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade

Two hightlights of the process are backing up the old installation and disabling/re-enabling contrib modules. Backup could be accomplished with the Backup And Migrate module, and the Contrib_Toggle module can manage the dependencies for disabling contrib modules.

http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
http://drupal.org/project/contrib_toggle

+1

I'd like this too, although it would also be a bit spooky (like Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance') so the rollback mechanism should be very reliable in case of catastrophe resulting from an update.

D7 has a similar feature implemented in core, right? And perhaps the Backup & Migrate + Backup & Migrate Files could offer assistance in the rollback feature....

Anyway, thanks for this module!

A core update feature is planned for the new Update Manager module, but the feature has been postponed until D8. You can follow progress at #606592: Allow updating core with the update manager

This may present an opportunity to fill this void either in D7 Plugin Manager or a separate Core Update Manager module.