"Partial" upgrade form 3.6.1 to 3.8.5

Hi,

I had a debian-packaged (etch) RT on a box and new options from 3.8 are interesting to us, so I plan to install a brand new RT install from sources, but would like to keep my existing DB.

Correct me if I’m wrong :
I juste need to do the RT setup, without the DB creation, run the DB upgrade script, et voilà ??

Thanks for your attention

Nicolas GUIOT
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I had a debian-packaged (etch) RT on a box and new options from 3.8 are interesting to us, so I plan to install a brand new RT install from sources, but would like to keep my existing DB.

Correct me if I’m wrong :
I juste need to do the RT setup, without the DB creation, run the DB upgrade script, et voil?? ??

That should be just about it, yes. It’s worth bearing in mind that
you should be able to install RT3.8 onto etch without too much trouble
if you are confident with installing selected packages from another
release without hosing your system; the packages are available in
squeeze/sid.

Cheers,
Dominic.

Dominic Hargreaves, Systems Development and Support Team
Computing Services, University of Oxford