[Ohrrpgce] Wiki down again! (N/T)

[Ralph Versteegen]

Oh, yikes. Well I guess packing a suitcase for a month is not an unusual
challenge :)

On 21 August 2018 at 13:44, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> Yeah, all the stuff shipped together on two big palettes, so all we have
> in the house now is what we brought on the plane, and stuff we have bought
> since we arrived (so much Ikea furniture to assemble!)
>
>
> On Monday, August 20, 2018, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, wow, do you have much still in shipment? That's a drawn out process!
>>
>>
>> On 21 August 2018 at 01:46, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No, I just did another manual one yesterday.
>>>
>>> The shipment that has my nightly build box in it has arrived in Canada,
>>> and cleared customs, but has not yet been delivered to my house.
>>>
>>> I never did manage to get the Mac virtual machine working properly on
>>> the Laptop i brought with me on the airplane. (Very picky about the
>>> specific Virtualbox version numbers)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh also, it looks like nightly builds are running again, except for
>>>> Mac, is that right?
>>>>
>>>> On 20 August 2018 at 16:41, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Great. So I take it the wiki was down because the upgrade process
>>>>> broke under dreamhost's restrictions.
>>>>>
>>>>> This reminds me that I was working on porting the buglists from
>>>>> bugzilla and sourceforge to github. I did make some progress - I think I
>>>>> managed to import and upgrade the bugzilla databases to a more recent
>>>>> bugzilla version. Still had a lot left to do and I don't remember much
>>>>> about it any more. Will try again in the coming months.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 August 2018 at 12:20, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The wiki us up again. The solution was:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * rsync the whole folder to my local machine (which took forever for
>>>>>> the first time)
>>>>>> * git pull
>>>>>> * git pull on all the extensions
>>>>>> * composer update --no-dev
>>>>>> * rsync all the changed files back to dreamhost
>>>>>> * run the mediawiki upgrade script
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have all that wrapped in a script now, although I am sure I need to
>>>>>> test it out more carefully, and incorporate some kind of backup step too,
>>>>>> before I schedule it with a cron job or anything like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> James
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 7:53 AM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, the memory requirements from running "git pull" grow as the
>>>>>>> repository grows, but whatever tool dreamhost runs to kill processes that
>>>>>>> exceed shared hosting limits is more strict than it used to be.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They also have an official policy "don't run composer on a shared
>>>>>>> host"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am thinking I need to set up the whole update process to run on my
>>>>>>> local machine, and then push the changed files to dreamhost with rsync
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Saturday, August 18, 2018, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> More strict? In what way?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It seems like a lot of these breakages are caused by software
>>>>>>>> updates. Do you have it set to update automatically? Not that that's a bad
>>>>>>>> thing.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 19 August 2018 at 12:21, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ah, thank you!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The wiki is getting more fragile lately.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think that Wikimedia is growing bigger, and the restrictions
>>>>>>>>> placed on my dreamhost shared hosting plan are getting more strict.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'll try to get it fixed.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> James
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Ralph Versteegen <
>>>>>>>>> teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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