I expect (hope!) PB updates will be quite frequent for a little while. To take the tedium out of this I wrote the following quick and dirty shell script which follows the steps in the user guide as of 091211. Developed on a Mac, it should also work on Unices/Linux. Windows users have my sympathy though doing something similar in Powershell would be no big deal.
Caveat emptor, if you’re not capable of reading through and fixing it up for your environment then leave well alone and stick to the update instructions in the PB user guide.
I just used it to update to 091211 and it seemed to work fine.
Basic operation is to backup some directories from the current system, unpack the new version into a temp directory, install the new files, reinstate the old backed up files, clean the cache and tidy up.
I note at the end that the themes may need fixing up by hand, as I don’t have any yet sorting this out is of no importance to me.
Hope someone finds this of use.
#!/bin/sh
oops() {
echo "$1"
exit 1
}
# Fix these for your own environment
D=/Users/xxx/Sites/
N=test-site
SD=system/expressionengine
# New name for system
NS=metsys
ND=$NS/expressionengine
# The new version
S=/Volumes/Data/web/ee
R=ExpressionEngine2.0.0_FL_PB1
# End of customization
F=$S/$R.zip
# Anything to do?
test -f $F || oops "Can't find $F"
# All 3 directories must exist
test -d $D/$N/$NS || oops "Can't find $D/$N/$NS"
cd $D
BKD=eebk`date +'%y%m%d%H%M'`
echo '***' backing up to ${BKD}
mkdir ${BKD} || oops "Can't create ${BKD}"
mv \
$N/$ND/config $N/$ND/templates $N/$ND/third_party $N/themes \
${BKD}
# Get the new files
echo '***' unzipping
rm -rf t/$R
unzip -q -d t $F
echo '***' cleaning up installer
# Just in case there are new files we leave the new directories and overwrite
# with our backed up files
rm -r t/$R/$SD/installer \
#t/$R/system/config /$R/system/templates t/$R/system/third_party
echo '***' installing new system dir
rm -rf $N/${NS}-old
mv $N/${NS} $N/${NS}-old
mv t/$R/system $N/${NS}
mv t/$R/themes $N
echo '***' Reinstating old system dirs excluding themes
#mv ${BKD}/* $N/$ND
cp -R \
${BKD}/config ${BKD}/templates ${BKD}/third_party \
$N/$ND
#rmdir -rf ${BKD}
echo '***' Fixing Permissions
chmod 777 $N/$ND/cache
chmod 666 $N/$ND/config/config.php $N/$ND/config/database.php
echo '***' Cleaning cache and temp dir
# Delete any folder
find $N/$ND/cache -depth 1 -type d | xargs rm -rf
rm -rf t
echo Finished, be sure to reinstate any custom themes from ${BKD}/themes
exit 0[Mod Edit: Moved to the How to forum]