Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-06 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Okay folks, here's a little script for assisting wiki updates. It does not yet fix the database permissions, since I'm not yet shure how I like to pass the superuser login/passwd. (suggestions welcomed) cu -- - Enrico Weige

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone known some way (w/o crawling too deep in the code) > for givinb mediawiki the ownership of the database and never ever > require superuser privileges anymore ? Well, just found it out by myself: * log into you wiki database and give your

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some people prefer to give their webapps limited insert, update, and > delete access and it's likely that Mediawiki's updates require alter, > create, drop, and file access which might be why they say to use an > account with root privileges. For larger (

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another update issue: $wgDisableUploads has been replaced by $wgEnableUploads cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-02 Thread kashani
Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: I'm a little bit confused why it needs root privileges to add / change some tables. Isn't the database already owned by the wiki's user ? ... strange ... Some people prefer to give their webapps limited insert, update, and delete access and it's likely that Mediawi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jigme Datse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > I ran into a similar problem in one of my updates of it. I am currently > running 1.68, and was running 1.4 and may have gone through the 1.5 > series. There is documentation on the mediawiki site at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgradi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2007-01-01 Thread Jigme Datse
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database layout has changed. How can I update it ? I ran into a similar problem in one of my updates o

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2006-12-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:20, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki': > I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, > 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I > get an query e

[gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki

2006-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I just tried to upgrade some wikis from 1.4.15 (to 1.5.8, 1.6.8, 1.7.1) and ran into trouble: while trying access the wiki, I get an query error - seems the database layout has changed. How can I update it ? thx -- --