How do you update Drupal?
Sitting on #drupal-support on IRC, you see people drop by with update problems from time to time. With Drupal 6.21, 6.22, 7.1 and 7.2 released earlier in the week, today was such a day.
The person in question had attempted a Drupal core update via drush, but ran it in the wrong directory. Drupal had picked up this incorrect location for its core modules, so when the drupal-6.22 directory got deleted, it was unable to load any of the core modules. Oops.
This led me to wondering whether the way I manage my Drupal updates is odd and whether sharing it would be useful. Being an open source person, I am of the opinion that sharing is virtual always useful (except when it comes to cheese) so I'll document the way I manage updates here.
Drupal Pronunciation Guide
To avoid misinterpretation of the project name, Linux has had a pronunciation guide for quite some time.
At Drupal Down Under in Brisbane, Australia, kattekrab obtained one for Drupal as well. So if you hear people mispronouncing "Drupal", you can now point them at an authoritative example :-)
Drupal7 is here!
Quick Facts
- Three years in the making
- 1,000 contributors
- Three new themes: Bartik, Seven and Stark
- Improved usability and accessibility
- Extensive documentation
- More than 800 modules ready to go
- Available in 35 languages
- Official Announcement
The Drupal content management platform powers the web presences of the Prime Minister, the State Library of Victoria, McDonald's Australia, Taronga Zoo and a number of Australian Broadcasting Corporation sites including Digmusic, ABCcountry, Pool and Hungrybeast, to name but a few.
Three years in the making, Drupal 7 was released late yesterday.
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