I love the ability to create packages for moving my usercontrols and related settings, etc. from dev to stage to production. HOWEVER, one major drawback... in order to move a new version to another server, I have to first uninstall the previous package. This has more than once bitten me because Umbraco uninstalls the wrong file or something I did not want disturbed.
Is there not a way to install a package as an upgrade to a previous package? If I install a package with the same name as an existing one, I get the updated files, etc. but then you end up with two entries in the list of installed packages. Is there a solution now or coming?
One option would potentially be to use Courier. That allows you to copy content and associated files from one version of a site to another. You can copy content, datatypes, and associated files (like dll's etc). We're evaluating it at the moment for some large sites that we look after, and so far it looks promising.
The other option is to do it manually if it's just minor upgrades. If you've just updated a few user controls and code behind, you can just zip those up and copy them across manually. That's what we currently do on a lot of our sites.
One big concern is the ability to backup before upgrading so that if the new usercontrol fails, it can easily be rolled back. Do you have a plan for version control?
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I love the ability to create packages for moving my usercontrols and related settings, etc. from dev to stage to production. HOWEVER, one major drawback... in order to move a new version to another server, I have to first uninstall the previous package. This has more than once bitten me because Umbraco uninstalls the wrong file or something I did not want disturbed.
Is there not a way to install a package as an upgrade to a previous package? If I install a package with the same name as an existing one, I get the updated files, etc. but then you end up with two entries in the list of installed packages. Is there a solution now or coming?
One option would potentially be to use Courier. That allows you to copy content and associated files from one version of a site to another. You can copy content, datatypes, and associated files (like dll's etc). We're evaluating it at the moment for some large sites that we look after, and so far it looks promising.
The other option is to do it manually if it's just minor upgrades. If you've just updated a few user controls and code behind, you can just zip those up and copy them across manually. That's what we currently do on a lot of our sites.
One big concern is the ability to backup before upgrading so that if the new usercontrol fails, it can easily be rolled back. Do you have a plan for version control?
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