From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 17:09:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5CF106566B for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sterling@camdensoftware.com) Received: from wh2.interactivevillages.com (wh2.interactivevillages.com [75.125.250.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804168FC0A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-22-230-24.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.22.230.24] helo=_HOSTNAME_) by wh2.interactivevillages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvYVE-0004tY-8r for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:09:21 -0800 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:09:20 -0800 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:09:20 -0800 From: Chip Camden To: "questions@freebsd.org" Message-ID: <20110304170920.GE55534@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mail-Followup-To: "questions@freebsd.org" References: <20110304002630.GA31751@thought.org> <20110304152744.GB55534@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110304161323.GA51360@guilt.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FN+gV9K+162wdwwF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110304161323.GA51360@guilt.hydra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Company: Camden Software Consulting URL: http://camdensoftware.com X-PGP-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xD6DBAF91 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - wh2.interactivevillages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - camdensoftware.com Cc: Subject: Re: mysql missing from my home-page WordPress.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:09:25 -0000 --FN+gV9K+162wdwwF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 04 March 2011: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:27:44AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > >=20 > > I have not had a lot of luck with upgrading from within the admin panel, > > but it is still easy to upgrade by downloading the latest tarball and > > simply extracting it over the installation. Then go into the admin pan= el > > to see if it requires that you press a button to update the database. > > Done! > >=20 > > Of course, make a backup first. >=20 > . . . and Heaven help you if you had to make any nontrivial changes to > your local install of WordPress to make up for some of its many > deficiencies, and don't have a detailed record of exactly what changes > you made, since I know of no upgrade methodology for WordPress that don't > destroy such changes in a way that makes it effectively impossible to > just apply a patch to reintroduce them. WordPress developers apparently > like to substantially change the way things look in all the core files > (thus breaking patches made from earlier versions) without substantively > changing the way things work or the readability of the code. >=20 > --=20 > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Yes, I've been bitten by that. Nowadays I confine all of my customizations to plugins or theme files, os I can always drop in their latest version and then check to see if they broke the plugins somehow (which has happened on occasion). --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com --FN+gV9K+162wdwwF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNcRzAAAoJEIpckszW26+RJkAH/15xOBLOSleHP5zHXBbwksKy gueG4CK77pTSFpLC80vlYwdZYeWHdJ9RXULrKsafmkyMvJ+ih6v4poS//r0d1Xey 3vvuxatzQ14spVwpsLDIGzmvVzO7VH6NLy/ThheegDjbwccEBq69KrnW/GcXr+QS S1k0XH93nwJw9z+fKb2Z8qK9gCMnvpRW0+kqRHcPMHVUomi6EiS5I6kOZinD1Qfa 1tDRuEInn6vq2gsooewU73yC6sNUaCy6YguxAQnvcMRDBpcggBtVJxquh5wLe+qx RJE2PX2aJkt7j2Ft5oBDYMpHBENQ+S/m9hpU2id2xtF4AZjyG780wWUyGKE4soI= =C1q1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FN+gV9K+162wdwwF--