On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:20:09PM -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote:
# On 6/4/05, H?nandil <hinandil(a)freespirits.org> wrote:
# > Pablo Chamorro C. wrote:
# > > By the way somebody knows a tip for uncompress a mediawiki.tgz file
# > > directly to e.g. /var/www/html/wiki/ just with one command? I mean,
# > > without creating the initial mediawiki-1.4.5 directory path?
# >
# > Uh, how about:
# >
# > $ mv /var/www/html/wiki /var/www/html/wiki~
# > $ tar zvxf mediawiki-1.4.5.tar.gz
# > $ mv mediawiki-1.4.5 /var/www/html/wiki
# >
# > That's what the team here likes to do. Come to think of it, that's what
# > I do on my personal test server (when I don't start out with rm
# > public_html/wiki anyway).
#
# Well that's not the one-liner that Pablo was asking for.
#
# It also doesn't do the whole job since you need to also move
# LocalSettings.php as well as an other extensions, AND your images
# directory, and whatever else I've forgotten. The upgrade instructions
# recommend backing up the old installation and then unpacking the new
# tarball into the old.
#
# it probably better to use copy or rsync to make a backup of the
# original directory, then do something like
#
# tar xzvr mediawiki-1.4.5.tar.gz
# mv -r mediawiki-1.4.5/* var/www/html/wiki
# rmdir mediawiki-1.4.5
$ ln -s wiki mediawiki-1.4.5
$ gzip -dc mediawiki-1.4.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ rm mediawiki-1.4.5
Otherwise you lose all of your images, right? Make it a one-liner by
separating the commands with &&
-Sam