[Pan-users] Re: How do you upgrade from 0.14.2 to the latest?

[Duncan]

Jim Henderson <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:15:28
+0000:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:09:11 -0400, Darren wrote:
> 
>> All I really want is the group information to be moved. How does one do
>> that?
> 
> I haven't done it, but I understand you can save from 0.14.x to .newsrc
> files that can be used by the new pan.

That's correct, but there's a bit more to it than that.  Old-pan could 
export to .newsrc format when told to, and that's the first step.  New-
pan uses .newsrc by default, but as .newsrc is single-server and new-pan 
supports multiple servers, it uses names other than simple .newsrc.

Basically, for every server in old-pan, export the newsrc file.  Then in 
new-pan, create the server and close pan, then look at the data files 
(under ~/.pan2 by default, set the PAN_HOME environmental variable to 
change where it looks for its datafiles if you don't like the default) 
and find the appropriate newsrc-N (where N is a number corresponding to 
the server).  Then with new-pan closed, COPY (so you have a backup) the 
exported newsrc from old-pan over the newsrc-N file, and reopen new-pan.  
It should now be using the copied over file.  If it isn't, it's time to 
figure out what went wrong.

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