[arch-dev-public] Update to FluxBB 1.4

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as you should know I have prepared the update to the new version of FluxBB.
> This is now mostly done except some minor adjustments to the configurable
> main menu.
>
> I have put a rough plan on my user page at
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Pierre I have tested this locally
> and it is more or less painless. The only problem I see is that the update
> script is quite inefficient; so the forums will be down for an hour or
> longer.
>
> Should we pick a special date here? I'd also need someone who is more
> familiar with the apache config to alter the permission for some files.
>
> Some additional notes:
> * I didn't get a response from the guy with the duplicate account yet
> * Obviously some previous migrations failed so I need to cleanup the
> database schema. (there are duplicate or unused keys)

Want to do it sometime Thursday or Friday while some of us are at
ArchCon? I'm willing to help out and I have sudo rights and such to
edit everything necessary.

We also do not have enough room to dump and reload a second copy of
the DB. Any ideas on this, anyone? We didn't think very straight when
we were sizing /var on a DB machine...

-Dan