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Install Coppermine SVN (or upgrade/update)

jez — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:30:53 +0000

Uploading and Installing Coppermine is really is a time-consuming task – not if you can use subversion from the box and simply type:

svn co https://coppermine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/coppermine coppermine

but just to be better safe than sorry I’d go for

svn co https://coppermine.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/coppermine/trunk/cpg1.4.x/ coppermine

because this is the version that is currently being worked and developed on.
As by the day of writing this, the most recent security release (patch) is only 3 days old- so there is work in progress.

I was not able (yet) to find out the real difference between coppermine 1.4 and 1.5 (or coppermine 1.4.x and 1.5.x) – usually higher numbers are better- right?

somehow though, it seems like the coppermine 1.4.x version is the only actively maintained and supported one (generally speaking in terms of themes and plugins and other fancy gadgets such as bridges to WordPress etc).

If you know anything new, please leave a comment!

When svn up does not work (WordPress subversion)

jez — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:20:58 +0000

Today WordPress 2.3.3. was released as an urgent security update to the last version.
I wanted to update my install by making use of my subversion install:
so as usually I’d go on with opening PuTTy and logging into my server.
From sh I’d enter

svn up

This for some reason did not fetch all files and no real update was carried out. Any idea why? I have no guess.
So what I did was:

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3/

More to type, but luckily this does update everything. Still an annoyance that svn up did not work.

WordPress 2.3.2 security update

jez — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:45:41 +0000

Hey everyone, just 14 hours ago another essential WordPress Security Update was announced. It should patch your wordpress copy to version 2.3.2 – if you have setup WordPress using Subversion you can either run

svn up

from ssh using PuTTY or (somehow this did not work for me) you can try

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.2/

happy updating (takes around 5 seconds actually).

Maybe another quick update from my side: I have finished translating the first eight (8) themes from English into Portuguese – they will be released once I have cleared all formalities with Samba!
The themes come updated in English, Portuguese and in a “branded” Samba! version. So you have three packages to choose from, but I doubt you are interested in a Samba! branded version if you can get the clutter-free English or Portuguese one.

Anyway, have a great New Year’s Eve in case I do not post anything else this year any more.

WordPress 2.3.1

jez — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:13:01 +0000

WordPress 2.3.1 is out (just 13 hours ago) – updating using subversion took 10 seconds: Windows Key + E -> go to putty folder -> open putty -> h4x3d.com -> login: user / password: password -> cd httpdocs -> svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1/ -> close putty, open firefox go to h4x3d.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php , press update -> voila all done :)

WordPress 2.3 Subversion Install

jez — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:02:43 +0000

If you wonder what happened to the page – I installed WordPress 2.3 using Subversion today and my former theme relies on some plugins that are not really WordPress 2.3 conform. I will have to look into it and change the code here and there. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Update: I migrated successfully, deleted some plugins, replaced others with newer ones, changed some post2cat to term2cat, removed some other dependencies and here we are – h4x3d.com is now running WordPress 2.3 on Subversion