This page will describe by efforts to upgrade SocialText from version v2.19.0.2 to git version

rsync current installation

mjesec:~# lvcreate -s -L 1G -n vz-snap /dev/vg/vz
  Logical volume "vz-snap" created
mjesec:~# mount /dev/vg/vz-snap /mnt/vz-snap/

stage:/mnt/btrfs# btrfs subvolume create /mnt/btrfs/saturn
Create subvolume '/mnt/btrfs/saturn'

stage:~# /srv/sysadmin-cookbook/recepies/rsync/rsync-clone.sh 10.60.0.9::vz-snap/private/212024/ /mnt/btrfs/saturn/

stage:~# btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/btrfs/saturn /mnt/btrfs/saturn.0.etch
Create a snapshot of '/mnt/btrfs/saturn' in '/mnt/btrfs/saturn.0.etch'

Upgrade Debian distribution

• first from etch -> lenny
• then from lenny -> squeeze

Install git

Use following /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list

root@stwiki3:~# apt-get install git-core

Checkout source

dpavlin@st-dev:~$ git clone git://github.com/socialtext/socialtext.git
Cloning into socialtext...
remote: Counting objects: 159215, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (34584/34584), done.
remote: Total 159215 (delta 118894), reused 157590 (delta 117564)
Receiving objects: 100% (159215/159215), 1.82 GiB | 6.74 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (118894/118894), done.

Install dependencies

From modified file dapper

dpavlin@stwiki3:~$ sudo apt-get install `cat socialtext/nlw/build/pkg-lists/dapper`

This is from docs/INSTALL.apt-get in SocialText git repository

dpavlin@clone-saturn:~$ cd socialtext/nlw/
dpavlin@clone-saturn:~/socialtext/nlw$ ./configure --socialtext-open 1 --force-ssl-login 1 --apache-proxy 0

# install rest of perl dependencies