Re: EPEL upgrading mantis

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:46:48 +0200
Gianluca Sforna <giallu(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi all,
>  since EPEL 5 ships an ancient version of mantis, I'd like to align it
>  to the 1.2 series used in Fedora and make it easier to keep up with
>  the various security issue fixed upstream.
>  
>  Since it is not really a drop in replacement for the 1.1.x serie
>  (admins needs to perform a schema upgrade after installation), is
>  there a special procedure to follow for this update? 
In the past the best we could do was: 

0) really try and avoid the incompatible upgrade. 

If it still has to happen (current version no longer supported by
upstream and has major security or other bugs, etc): 

1) announce loudly here and epel-announce list that you are planning an
incompatible upgrade. 

2) Create the new package/update and push it to epel-testing, but
disable auto push on karma. 

3) Leave it in testing a while (weeks? month?)

4) Announce again loudly 

5) push it out. 

kevin