Re: [SM-USERS] Patching up to new versions

[Jonathan A. <ja...@ce...>]

Hello Jay,
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, Jay Lee wrote...

> What's the possiblity of offering a patch for minor version upgrades
> of squirrelmail? As I understand it there were very few, minor
> changes between 1.2.10 and 1.2.11. But it's still going to require
> me to do an almost complete reinstall to get all my plugins and
> modifications to work properly again. I'd love to just do a:

> gunzip -d sq-patch-1.2.11.gz | patch -p0

> like I can do with linux kernel patches. Even if my mods prevented
> the patch from installing it'd be easier to see what's changed
> between the official versions and how I need to modify mine. What do
> you guys think?

Because the changes were very minimal in most places, you can extract
the files over the top of your 1.2.10 files. Somebody emailed me off
list the other day and asked for a patch, so I'll get one built. Just
as a note, because of the way SquirrelMail is packaged, there is no
config/config.php file, or data files (apart from the default
examples). So it is safe to extract 1.2.11 over the top of 1.2.10, or
extract 1.2.11 into a new location, and copy the data files (including
config.php) into the new locations. The same applies for plugins too.

I'll try getting a patch built tonight, and upload it somewhere.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
(ja...@ce...)