[Pkg-zope-developers] A couple of questions on Plone in Debian

[Jamie Robe]

Hi everyone, I have been using apt-get on Debian servers to install
Plone with no problems. I have two questions - probably stupid but... I
would apprecaite any help you could send me.
(1) First question is that I have been doing the following three
commands to get my system working. Is this the correct sequence? I have
been using "testing" so I get the latest recommended Plone version... is
that good?
apt-get install zope2.8
apt-get install zope-cmfplone
apt-get install plone-site

 (2) I had a question about the best practice method to keep my zope and
plone system updated properly. 
I was wondering if I should/could use apt-get to keep the above packages
up-to-date? Or what do you recommend. I want to keep up with security
fixes, etc. Or should I just shutdown the plone sites, copy the data.fs
to another partition, and then do the updates, then just copy data.fs
back? I assume in big releases there may be migration things I need to
do too?
When I posted to the plone listserve, I got some answers telling it was
great using apt-get... another like this one below:
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> Hi. I am trying to keep my servers up-to-date on everything, and was 
> wonder what advice you all have for me. I am using Debian Linux and I 
> am wondering if I should update  and plone. I use the following to do 
> my install: apt-get install zope2.8
> apt-get install zope-cmfplone
> apt-get install plone-site
> It is easy enough to use apt-get to upgrade packages. Is there a
> procedure to make sure I don't destroty my ZODB (data.fs) by
overwriting
> and/or by hitting migration problems.
> Just wanted to see what you all thought :-)

The procedure is, don't do it. Package managers, especially debian it  
seems, are not good at staying up-to-date with plone, and if your  
Products/ get updated without you also knowing to run migration, may  
become incredibly screwed. It's better to keep control yourself:  
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/setup-from-source

Martin
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Thanks Debian Plone managers! You have done a great job.
Jamie




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