Re: [Evolution] migration from Evo 1.4?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

make sure it updated evolution-data-server too.  tho i would have thought dependencies would do that.

it might just be a bad snapshot - wait for the next one before trying cvs, that can be a pita and take ages.

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 11:22 -0400, Frank Lynch wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I just attempted the upgrade with a snapshot via red-carpet, and I got
> the following failure:
>
> [frank flynch ~]$ evolution-1.5 --force-migrate
> asked to activate component_id
> `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Component:1.5'
> addressbook_migrate (1.4.0)
> evolution-1.5: relocation error:
> /usr/lib/evolution/1.5/components/libevolution-addressbook.so: undefined
> symbol: e_book_open
>
> I assume that theres a problem with this snapshot? Should I download the
> sources and build from them? 
> any other suggestions?
> thanks
> --Frank
>
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 22:00, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:23 -0400, Frank Lynch wrote: 
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > Apologies if this is a RTFM, but I couldn't find any obvious info on
> > > this. 
> > > I'm currently using Evo 1.4 and I'm quite happy with it. I'm seriously
> > > thinking about making the leap to 2.0. I'm wondering if there is any
> > > risk involved in doing this. Will I loose any of my email, contacts,
> > > filters, calander or any other data?
> > The only 'risk' is that you might not have enough disk space.  It will
> > check this (the check is unreliable in some earlier versions) and
> > warn, but otherwise it should work.  But if anything fails you can
> > just go back to 1.4 (before you add anything new to 1.5) and you wont
> > lose anything. 
> > > If there is a list of manual steps that need to be followed can someone
> > > point me in the right direction?
> > No, it is automatic. 
> > > Does evo 1.5 silently import everything from 1.4, or do I need to run
> > > some special import tool?
> > Yes it does it relatively silently (it shows progress bars). 
> > > Is there a recommended way of installing Evo 1.5? should I just grab it
> > > via a snapshot from red-carpet, or should I just bite the bullet and
> > > build it from source?
> > If you aren't already building things from source i'd recommend
> > snapshots.  Like any snapshots the stability may vary from day to day,
> > so when you find one that works well stick to it.
> > 
> > Stability is generally good.  The mailer is better still I think,
> > although i'm a bit biased, and I don't really use the other parts much
> > - but going on the bug counts.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com>
> > 
> > Ximian Evolution and Free Software
> > Developer
>
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