Re: [xwiki-users] How can I upgrade XWIKI from an older Version?

Hello, I've XWiki 2.0rc2 instance and I want to update to 2.0.5 version. I find empty FAQ here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/WhoCanIUpdateXWIKIFromAnOlderVersion I'd like to update it on myself experience. But before I've one question at the end of my email on xar import. 1st/ re-deploy war (easy part) By chance we didn't update any files excepted xwiki.cfg and hibernate.cfg.xml. So I did the following:   - zip current webapp/xwiki folder   - remove webapp/xwiki folder   - deploy xwiki-enterprise-web-2.0.5.war in webapp/xwiki   - report my old xwiki.cfg and hibernate.cfg.xml configuration to the new one 2nd/ import xar (difficulties start here) First, I import the full xar without any question: whao, everything is broken. Do not forget to backup your database before upgrade! After restoration, I decide to write a small script based on curl to export same xar as the one I want to import: #!/bin/bash XWIKI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080 if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then    echo usage $0 login password    exit 1 fi EXPORT_XAR="?format=xar&name=Current" for page in `jar tvf xwiki-enterprise-wiki-2.0.5.xar | sed -ne "/\/.*xml/{s/.*\s\(\S\+\)\/\(\S\+\).xml/\1.\2/ p}"`; do    EXPORT_XAR="${EXPORT_XAR}&pages=${page}" done curl -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt -d"j_username=$1&j_password=$2&j_rememberme=true&submit=Log-in" ${XWIKI_BASE_URL}/xwiki/bin/loginsubmit/XWiki/XWikiLogin curl -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt ${XWIKI_BASE_URL}/xwiki/bin/export/Main/WebHome${EXPORT_XAR} -o Current.xar Whatever I used the best diff tool (Beyond Compare IMHO), it is not so easy to check if difference are good or not: I need other way. Thanks to RESTful API, I write a second script which check page version: version 1.1 was never updated from previous xar version: #!/bin/bash XWIKI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080 for page in `jar tvf xwiki-enterprise-wiki-2.0.5.xar | sed -ne "/\/.*xml/{s/.*\s\(\S\+\)\/\(\S\+\).xml/\1\/pages\/\2/ p}"`; do    version=`curl -s -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt ${XWIKI_BASE_URL}/xwiki/rest/wikis/xwiki/spaces/$page | sed -ne "/version/{s/.*version>\(.*\)<\/version.*/\1/ p}"`    if [[ $version != "1.1" ]]; then        echo $page $version UPDATED    fi done Cool, only 8 updated pages: Main/pages/WebHome 144.1 UPDATED XWiki/pages/XWikiUserSheet 4.1 UPDATED XWiki/pages/XWikiAdminGroup 4.2 UPDATED XWiki/pages/XWikiPreferences 78.1 UPDATED XWiki/pages/LiveTableResults 2.1 UPDATED XWiki/pages/XWikiAllGroup 34.1 UPDATED XWiki/pages/WebPreferences 3.2 UPDATED XWiki/pages/LiveTableResultsMacros 2.1 UPDATED All other pages can be updated without any check :-D 6 pages of  8 should be not updated:    - Main.WebHome: it is our own main page    - XWiki.AdminGroup and XWikiAllGroup: list Admin users and users    - XWiki.XWikiUserSheet, we apply a patch to display user contribution: not updated    - XWiki.LiveTableResults and XWiki.LiveTableResultsMacros, I check with my diff tool: there is a tag object inside.should not updated it. But I block on XWiki.XWikiPreferences and XWiki.WebPreferences. I want our own preferences, I should not update But new preferences may be added My diff tool find them too different. Could I keep my old preferences or do I have to merge? Regards, Arnaud.