Upgrading from WordPress 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 using SubversionEdit

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The are the upgrade notes for the WordPress 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 upgrade using Subversion (based on previous notes, "Upgrading from WordPress 2.0.4 to 2.0.5 using Subversion").

OLD_WP_VERSION="2.0.5"
NEW_WP_VERSION="2.0.6"
PUBLIC_HTML_CONTAINING_WP="path_to_public_html_folder_where_wp_lives"
DATABASE_USER="database_user"
DATABASE_NAME="database_name"
APACHE_USER="user_that_apache_runs_as"

# backup the database
sudo -v
sudo mysqldump --opt -u "${DATABASE_USER}" -p -h localhost \
    "${DATABASE_NAME}" | bzip2 -c > ~/wp-${OLD_WP_VERSION}-db-backup.tar.bz2

# backup the installed files
cd "${PUBLIC_HTML_CONTAINING_WP}"
sudo tar -c -v wp > ~/wp-${OLD_WP_VERSION}-files-backup.tar
gzip --verbose -9 ~/wp-${OLD_WP_VERSION}-files-backup.tar

# after disabling all plug-ins
cd wp
svn info
sudo -u "${APACHE_USER}" -H svn switch "http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${NEW_WP_VERSION}"
sudo -u "${APACHE_USER}" -H svn up

Output:

U    wp-login.php
U    wp-includes/template-functions-general.php
U    wp-includes/template-functions-category.php
U    wp-includes/cache.php
U    wp-includes/template-functions-post.php
U    wp-includes/wp-db.php
U    wp-includes/links.php
U    wp-includes/functions-formatting.php
U    wp-includes/gettext.php
U    wp-includes/version.php
U    wp-includes/functions-post.php
U    wp-includes/classes.php
U    wp-includes/kses.php
U    wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php
U    wp-includes/comment-functions.php
U    wp-includes/functions.php
U    wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
U    wp-content/themes/classic/comments-popup.php
U    wp-content/themes/default/searchform.php
U    wp-content/themes/default/comments-popup.php
U    wp-register.php
U    wp-links-opml.php
U    wp-trackback.php
U    wp-settings.php
U    wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php
U    wp-admin/inline-uploading.php
U    wp-admin/users.php
U    wp-admin/edit-comments.php
U    wp-admin/wp-admin.css
U    wp-admin/link-categories.php
U    wp-admin/edit.php
U    wp-admin/post.php
U    wp-admin/theme-editor.php
U    wp-admin/upgrade.php
U    wp-admin/options.php
U    wp-admin/admin-functions.php
U    wp-admin/templates.php
U    wp-admin/edit-page-form.php
U    wp-admin/moderation.php
U    wp-admin/link-manager.php
U    wp-admin/bookmarklet.php
U    wp-admin/options-permalink.php
U    wp-admin/edit-link-form.php
U    wp-admin/edit-pages.php
U    wp-admin/import/blogger.php
U    wp-admin/options-misc.php
U    wp-admin/categories.php

Finally, try hitting the upgrade script (at wp-admin/upgrade.php) and re-enable all plug-ins one by one.

Plug-in upgrades

After upgrading to 2.0.6 I checked for new versions of my installed plug-ins and found that WP-Cache 2.0 had been bumped to version 2.0.21 (release announcement).

I decided to take the time to switch over to Subversion-based upgrades for that plug-in as well.

# after disabling the plug-in
cd wp-content/plug-ins
sudo rm -rf wp-cache

It was then time to edit the svn:externals definition:

sudo -u "${APACHE_USER}" -H svn propedit svn:externals .

Changing it from this:

akismet http://svn.wp-plugins.org/akismet/trunk/

To this:

akismet http://svn.wp-plugins.org/akismet/trunk/
wp-cache http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-cache/tags/release-2.0.21

And then updating:

sudo -u "${APACHE_USER}" -H svn up

Output:

Fetching external item into 'wp-cache'
A    wp-cache/wp-cache-config-sample.php
A    wp-cache/README.txt
A    wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php
A    wp-cache/wp-cache-phase2.php
A    wp-cache/wp-cache.php
Updated external to revision 7238.

Then re-enable the plug-in and everything seems to be working.

One curious thing I noted was that the Akismet plug-in does not get updated when running the normal svn switch upgrade process. I should do an svn up as well after each update. The output was:

Fetching external item into 'akismet'
A    akismet/akismet.gif
U    akismet/akismet.php
Updated external to revision 7238.