[cvsnt] Re: Help! Upgrading to CVSNT 2.5.03

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 25 May 2006 18:56:15 +0100, Tim Chippington Derrick
<tim at chippingtonderrick.co.uk> wrote:

>I followed the advice on http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/Upgrading which 
>suggests just installing over the top of an existing 2.x CVSNT server 
>installation. 

That advice was upgrading from 2.0.X to 2.0.Y and does not hold if you
upgrade from 2.0.X to 2.5.Y.Z

You should completely uninstall the CVSNT server that you have
currently installed. Then reboot the machine.
Now you are prepared to install 2.5.03.2330 or 2260 depending on your
preferences (2260 is labeled as "stable" whereas 2330 is a version
that has fixed bugs in 2260...).
Depending on which installer you choose (the MSI one from March Hare
or the InnoSetup one from my or Oliver's sites) you have to be aware
that in the future you have to keep using the same installer flavour
for later upgrades. Any time you want to switch installer you have to
uninstall the server you have and then installl using the other
installer.
It's no magic involved, just different install engines, but they are
incompatible in the install-install-uninstall cycle.

Not to worry, the repository data are not destroyed by this cycle nor
are the CVSNT server settings, they are all kept in the Registry and
are untouched by the install-uninstall-install cycle.

>I have also read through 
>http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/InstallCVSNT25.html and am still 
>having problems. I have looked back in the CVSNT list and didn't yet 
>find any other clues there either...

I would say that once you do the uninstall and then follow the install
guide you will be fine.

HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)