Patch management

[george_bbch]

Hi all,

I suppose that if someone skips a patch, he/she will get the fixes corresponding to it also in the next one, right? (i.e, if I install 4.2.0b but skip 4.2.0c, then by installing 4.2.0d the system is up-to-date).

Thanks,
George

[malcolmh]

Yes, the patches are usually cumulative!

[ricardo.reis]

can someone give certainty about this? I understand that sugar patchs work by file replacement and, as such, would be comulative for the files included in the patch. but what about if patch b replaced a file that pacth d doesn't need to upgrade? Then skipping b would leave a dangling file... I'm asking this because in the old patchs link I can't find 4.2 patchs between the d and a...

[Markku]

can someone give certainty about this?

Well, I guess we can trust Sugar team members, I'm quoting Andy Dreisch from this thread:
http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...9916#post39916

Yes, redbone, you can go straight from 420a to 420c. No need to go through 420b. Our patches are cumulative.

Hope this helps,

Andy

[george_bbch]

That thread is in the Pro forum, which is not accessible for the Open Source users, so thanks for posting the content here, too, Markku.

George

[Markku]

Oops, sorry about that, thanks for the info George.