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Recommended upgrade path

Asked by Magnus

What is the recommended upgrade path for mediawiki?

For example, now that Natty is our, suppose I have an older system that runs mediawiki (installed from the ubuntu packets) and I want to upgrade it to Natty and Nattys version of mediawiki.

I do know how to upgrade a mediawiki as per mediawikis recommencations. But what is the "ubuntu way" of doing this?
Is there some clever shourtcuts one can make?
I don't want to confuse the packet manager, so just making a manual upgrade is probably not the right way...

Any ideas, anyone?

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#1

If you upgrade to natty using update-manager, which is the recommended way to upgrade, then you will have natty's mediawiki version installed and running in the same way you have it running now. I wouldn't try to install natty's mediawiki package on maverick.

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Magnus (koma-lysator) said : 		#2

Ok, that sounds promising.
So, in the upgrade to Natty the database and other parts of database will be migrated to the newer version automatically?

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#3

Backup first, but yes, the package maintainers should have taken care of that.

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Magnus (koma-lysator) said : 		#4

Thanks for the quick answers!