Upgrading Drupal

Hi,

We're creating internal documentation for initial site roll-out purposes. Basically the whole move the working Testing site to an existing non-Drupal Production site. (See the sanitized working doc below) The existing http://drupal.org/upgrade/copying-your-test-site-via-command-line and http://drupal.org/upgrade/copying-your-test-site-via-GUI don't seem to answer a couple of questions.

Q1) As the current production version of Drupal is a moving target, the testing site will invariably be a release or two out of date (e.g. 4.6.2 vs. 4.6.5). Are there any problems with truncating the tables of a greenfield install (4.6.5) and SQL inserting all data from the testing system (4.6.2) into the new database? (See section : Copy Data)

Q2) Are the database/table changes between 4.6 and 4.7 small enough that this same methodology can be used to upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7?

Thanks,

M.J. Taylor
Publisher
from Reason to Freedom

==== Rollout Documentation ====

Constraints:
Non-*nix trained operator

Using:
cPanel and Fantastico

Base Path:
{private data deleted}/drupal/staging

==== Begin Rollout Instructions ====

: Login
login to Control Panel

: Clean Install to Production
[Fantastico, Drupal, New Installation]
follow prompts
{private data deleted}

: Add table(s)
[phpMyAdmin, select Database, SQL, Copy&Paste from:]

Hi all,

I'm making the switch from 4.6.5 to 4.7b4 for a few test sites just to get the feel of it and was wondering how I go about updating existing module database tables to the 4.7 version of the module? Or do I even need to?

Thanks
Ken

I am running Acidfree perfectly in the new version D4.7B4 however after the upload a set of red warnings appear:
warning: fopen(private/filemanager.lck): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/con/public_html/modules/filemanager/filemanager.module on line 654.

Please any have the filemanager.module file with the patch done
filemanager-private.patch
of acidfree for this new 4.7B4

thanks a lot in advance
Ferran

anyone can help me?

I followed the update instructions listed with the release ( see below). I get the following error messages when I run the last step (see end of post). Any suggestions?

Thanks.
Rich

// $Id: UPGRADE.txt,v 1.2 2005-12-10 19:26:47 dries Exp $

UPGRADING
---------

1. Backup your database and Drupal directory - especially your
configuration file in 'sites/default/settings.php'.

2. Log on as the user with user ID 1.

3. Remove all the old Drupal files then unpack the new Drupal
files into the directory that you run Drupal from.

4. Modify the new configuration file to make sure
it has the latest and correct information.

5. Run update.php by visiting http://www.example.com/update.php.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare system_update_173() (previously declared in /var/www/database/updates.inc:1628) in /var/www/database/updates.inc on line 1689

Warning: Unknown column 'referer' in 'field list' query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (1, 'php', 'Unknown column 'cache' in 'field list'\nquery: UPDATE sessions SET uid = 1, cache = 0, hostname = '192.168.0.105', session = 'messages|a:0:{}', timestamp = 1140914959 WHERE sid = '620c7fd5fb6f3dcabc372c1e37241c91' in /var/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.', 2, '', '/update.php', '', '192.168.0.105', 1140914959) in /var/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120

Hi, I'm trying to port mysite over to 4.7, and I've installed a clean 4.7 for experimenting. I've uploaded a couple of modules: flexinode,
excerpt, blockbar, indexpage, porterstemmer, simplevote, votingapi, & taxonomy access control.
I noticed, while working on the site, that my breadcrumb displays incorrectly while in a book. It displays correctly everywhere else. When I noticed the problem, I turned off everything except taxonomy access control & flexinode, but this didn't fix the problem.

Is this a known issue? Has anyone else experienced this issue?