Why is the upgrade process always so painful?

[jarrodarmstrong]

I seem to have to reconfigure everything when I upgrade. Half of the times I have had to delete my database.

Does anyone else have these issues?

[frnx]

For what it's worth it's been pretty painless on my side, even with the beta versions. Unzip, move and restart service worked every time, even with ~7000 songs in the database.

[daneren2005]

Are you stopping the db before upgrading? That would explain at the least the issue of having to delete the db after a upgrade.

[mitrailer]

I run subsonic on a RPI (debian).

I do the following steps when updating and never have a problem as you (jarrodarmstrong) comment


sudo service subsonic stop
sudo dpkg -i subsonic-x.x.deb

and that's it.

[Exrace]

I have been running SS on a windows server for years and not once did I have a failure with upgrades.
With 50,000 songs in db - always quick and painless.
I don't do anything special so the installer must be shutting things down gracefully.