[TYPO3-english] Upgrde strategy

[Markus Klein]

> 
> One question about the second part:
> 
> PART 2
> - Make a staging copy from live (where editors have made changes), do the
> core update again
> 
> If "staging" is a "fresh from live" 4.5 install, and "dev" is a perfectly updated
> 6.2 install:
> Is it possibly simply replace staging/typo3conf/ext by dev/typo3conf/ext,
> maybe just before switching the core to 6.2 and running the upgrade
> wizards?
> 
> Or do you have to do all the uninstalling and extension upgrading in the EM
> again?
> 

It depends.
We uninstall all extensions on the staging instance, do the Core update, exchange the ext directory and install all extensions one by one.
This is because some extensions might bring their own upgrade wizards (in EM) or even dedicated modules (like powermail).

Kind regards
Markus

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Markus Klein
TYPO3 CMS Active Contributors Team Member