Differentiate update candidates by version

[VicDeo]

We use current version in the request to appstore and request contains current OC version.

In order to support correct mugration order it would be nice to respond with the different links:

• to the latest OC7 for 6.x
• to the latest OC6 for 5.x
• to the latest OC5 for 4.5.x

etc...

[VicDeo]

There is a little sense in providing a link to OC7 for OC5 instances as we don't support direct 5->7 migration anyway.

[tflidd]

Why does the update-app do upgrades in the first place? In the documentation (for OC 6 at least), it says that it is only supposed to do updates. A lot of people are running into problems, can't you put some message like "you are on the last release of your version, if you want to upgrade, you need to do it manually -> link to documentation"?

It's a nice function to do automated updates (including backups before) but only if it works properly. Don't get my wrong, I appreciate your work and the update app works fine for a lot of people. But if the updates risk to fail, not so experienced users are easily discouraged.

[VicDeo]

@tflidd it's dumb and uses a link to a package provided by appstore.
And the link is always pointing to the most recent version (to 7.0.2 currently) for any owncloud version

[tflidd]

@VicDeo Unfortunately, there is nothing about that in the documentation! If Firefox suggest an update to a never version, I will use the update function and expect it to work. Imagine you do an update, it fails and after some research you find an entry on their bugtracker that updates from version 28 -> 31 are not supported.

For the documentation, I already submitted some remarks for OC 6: owncloud-archive/documentation#424, the new documentation is even worse because it mentions the manual and "secure" way very late. And the difference between update and upgrade isn't as clear as before.

[ghost]

@VicDeo
Think this can be closed as you already had added an check to avoid skipping versions in owncloud/updater#35 ?

[VicDeo]

@RealRancor no. this is about the upgrade path
Check prevents from skipping major versions in emergency cases but the appstore feed should suggest the correct candidate for each instance (e.g. do not offer OC8 sources as a replacement for OC4)

[ghost]

@VicDeo So how can we pull some one in here to fix that issue? Had a user asking again why the updater is trying to jump over major upgrades:

https://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=31336&p=101229#p101224

[ghost]

Honestly, this should be really fixed. Its now open since more than one year. I think it shouldn't be that hard to implement that the updating URL is responding with the correct version.

[a-schild]

Just stumbled into this one when going from 8.0.4 to 8.2.0

[ortonomy]

Yes, had an issue with this going from 8.0.3 to 8.2.1. Can't upgrade because of major versions. Didn't warn me in the updater.

[ghost]

Ref: owncloud/core#20640, owncloud/core#20660

Probably will see further issues like those if the updater url is not getting fixed.

[MichaelSp]

Probably will see further issues like those if the updater url is not getting fixed.

True. Here we go again. (Updating from 8.0.3.4 to 8.2.1)
How do I repair my screwed installation now?

[ghost]

See the issues linked one comment above yours

[mzaian]

Guys after facing all the related issue i just need to upgrade my current version 7.0.3 to the latest while i have the opensuse repo configured but when i try the apt method its downloading the 8.1.4* version and i cannot upgrade from my current version to it.

Do you have a guide to perform the upgrade to the versions one by one using the repos or manually, i was reading many documents in https://doc.owncloud.org/server/7.0/admin_manual/maintenance/upgrade.html but its not clear.

Thanks

[ghost]

@mzaian This is unrelated as you shouldn't use the updater app with repositories. Please also use the forums for such support questions.

[mzaian]

I Tried on my cloned test instance the updater app once and it broke the installation, later i started using the repos from command line and i was facing the same problem.

[ghost]

Just use the forums for more discussions / support. It is known that this is broken and needs to be fixed

[karlitschek]

@LukasReschke can you backport the change of the updater url? after that we can implement the proposed logic here.
What do you think?

[ghost]

Are there any backports needed to fix this?

From my understanding oC 8.0.9 for example is calling:

https://apps.owncloud.com/updater.php?version=8x0x9x1338030373.1628x1373617342.3379xstablex

which currently returns 8.2.1 as the latest version. The whole problem here would solved if the updater URL is returning 8.1.4 for that 8.0.9 version (that info could be gathered from the ?version get parameter.

[nikogh]

Just ran into the same issue :(

[nikogh]

Thx to RealRancor for the following workaround! This helps to get rid of the error message and restores the installation:

1. Remove all files and folders expect /data/ and /config/
2. Download 8.0.9 from the changelog posted above and extract it into your install dir
3. Run the update via the webgui

Repeat those steps with 8.1.4 and 8.2.2

[LukasReschke]

@karlitschek I've written a new update server which is completely integration- and unit-tested using Behat and PHPUnit. Let's talk about this today. This should finally resolve this issue 😄

[VicDeo]

@LukasReschke any chance for me to have look at it?

[LukasReschke]

@VicDeo https://github.com/owncloud/administration-internal/pull/12

[ghost]

Is it really true? The update server is finally shipping the correct versions 🚀

https://updates.owncloud.com/server/?version=8x0x0x7x1382907615.86x1435439812xstablexx2015-02-07T02:34:55+00:00

[LukasReschke]

Yep. We just deployed my new updater server 😉

[ghost]

@LukasReschke 👯

However it seems that 9.0.2 is not provided to 8.2.4 users as this:

https://updates.owncloud.com/server/?version=8x2x4x7x1382907615.86x1435439812xstablexx2015-02-07T02:34:55+00:00

is returning a XML Parsing Error: no element found where:

https://updates.owncloud.com/server/?version=8x2x3x7x1382907615.86x1435439812xstablexx2015-02-07T02:34:55+00:00

is providing 8.2.4

[LukasReschke]

Yes. We are at the moment by intention not serving updates to 9.0 for the stable and production channel. If someone really wants if they can switch to the "beta" one:

https://updates.owncloud.com/server/?version=8x2x4x7x1382907615.86x1435439812xbetaxx2015-02-07T02:34:55+00:00

I don't feel comfortable to serve this broadly yet as a lot of users have a misconfigured overwrite.cli.url setting, once owncloud/core#24540 is in we can enable that for 9.0.3 for all users.

[ghost]

Ahhh, good to know. Then this blogpost probably should be updated:

https://owncloud.org/blog/maintenance-releases-9-0-2-8-2-4-8-1-7-8-0-12-and-7-0-14-out-time-to-upgrade/

As it is talking that releases should be available at the end of the last week.

Cc @jospoortvliet

[ghost]

But just wondered, 9.0.2 is provided to users of 9.0.0 and 9.0.1:

https://updates.owncloud.com/server/?version=9x0x0x7x1382907615.86x1435439812xstablexx2015-02-07T02:34:55+00:00

So 9.0.2 is definitely shipped, but not for users of 8.2.4

[Akhenaton]

Yeah, i was on 9.01 and the repos for Ubuntu 14.04 provided me with the 9.02 running fine actually ! 😆

[ghost]

@Akhenaton This one here is not about the repos. :-)

[Akhenaton]

Ooops, sorry, i've just had a too good lunch, really sorry..... 💤