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any disadvantage to auto-update?


cginca

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I am short of time these days. My host will do an auto-install of CubeCart, but it is about a dozen versions behind, so it has to make that many updates to get current. Are there any disadvantages to using the auto update for that many updates? Does it leave behind orphan files or misc. artifacts?

Thanks.

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If all goes to plan, CubeCart gets the latest code and overwrites all existing same-named code. If there is code that is not in the package (a payment gateway, for example), that code will not be overwritten. If files need to disappear, CubeCart will try to delete them.

Once the latest codebase is in place, the setup will run. The setup will query the CubeCart_history database table to determine at what version the database is structured according to the version of the CubeCart codebase. Then, CubeCart will modify the structural version of the database for each version until the database gets to the latest structure that matches the codebase version.

So, the database is upgraded incrementally to the latest version, and in one operation, the codebase gets completely replaced with the latest version.

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