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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes in theory they "should".  Though there was much which changed between
2.05 and 2.10.  All of the table altering stuff from earlier versions
should be accumulated in newer versions but I recall that sometimes things
did not go smoothely with major jumps in versions.  I guess the simple fact
is that incremental upgrades tend to get tested pretty heavily.  Jumping
versions becomes more of a leap of faith :-)

But I do agree, if someone can verify that 2.05 to 2.10 works fine, then it
would be good to hear.

I suspect the bigger problems will arise because the metadata integrity
control on earlier versions was a good bit looser, so there will be hiccups
caused by inconsistencies in categoryoptions, groupsets etc due to "broken"
metadata in old databases.  Certainly before attempting such an upgrade I
would consider trying to repair as much of these as possible, though again
without tools it is not always really easy.

Of course the most important thing is to make sure you do all of these
experiments in the full knowledge that you have a complete,
verified/restored backup copy of the source database.

Meanwhile I guess the answer to my earlier question is that nobody has
setup a dhis war museum.

Regards
Bob


On 20 August 2014 11:25, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I thought Dan's point was that it would not be necessary to go through
> every version?
>
> But if it's necessary, maybe it would suffice to describe in simple steps
> how to build old versions.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> The question of upgrading from very old dhis2 versions came up recently
>> in another post.
>>
>>  It emerged then that we don't seem to have a historical archive
>> (museum!) of war artefacts going back beyond 2.10 on
>> http://apps.dhis2.org/ci.  We do have the source code tagged back as far
>> as 2.4.  Has anybody kept hold of these historic build or should we
>> consider rebuilding and making available?  Who would volunteer to do that?
>>
>>
>> On 19 August 2014 22:59, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Moemedi,
>>> Not sure, but I think you could try upgrading directly from 2.0.5 to
>>> 2.13 first, and then run the first script. Then 2.14, then script, then
>>> 2.15.
>>>
>>> If things don't work, you should provide the actual error messages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Moemedi Ntunyane <
>>> moemedi.ntunyane@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> I am upgrading DHIS 2.0.5 using postgreSQL DB, is there a shortcut
>>>> other than using incremental way like 2.0.5, 2.0.6 ......to 2.15. Directly
>>>> executing scripts from
>>>> http://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/sql/convert-fixed-attributes-to-dynamic.sql gives
>>>> errors like column does not exist.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Moemedi NtunyaneCo-founder KeyInConsulting*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> From: moemedi.ntunyane@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> To: dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> CC: dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: RE: [Dhis2-devs] dhis upgrade from 2.0.5 to 2.15
>>>> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:47:46 +0200
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Dan
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Moemedi Ntunyane Co-founder KeyInConsulting*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] dhis upgrade from 2.0.5 to 2.15
>>>> From: dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:40:56 -0400
>>>> CC: dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> To: moemedi.ntunyane@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> Hello Moemedi,
>>>>
>>>> The upgrades should happen automatically except for 2.13->2.14 and
>>>> 2.14->2.15 Those scripts can be found here
>>>> https://www.dhis2.org/downloads
>>>> 2.13->2.14
>>>> http://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/sql/convert-fixed-attributes-to-dynamic.sql
>>>> 2.14->2.15
>>>> http://www.dhis2.org/download/resources/sql/rename-patient-to-trackedentity.sql
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> *Dan Cocos*
>>>> BAO Systems
>>>> www.baosystems.com
>>>> T: +1 202-352-2671 | skype: dancocos
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 19, 2014, at 6:40 AM, Moemedi Ntunyane <
>>>> moemedi.ntunyane@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Developers, where can I get the upgrade scripts from the very lowest
>>>> dhis 2.0.6 so that i do incremental
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Moemedi Ntunyane Co-founder KeyInConsulting*
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> http://dhis2.org
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