On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:41 -0800, Paul Sue wrote:
This is true enough, I copied over the Zope instance ... so then, am I to conclude that there is no safe way to move a Zope installation to a new server?!
No, I've done it many times. Most of the time copying the files over just works. But I've had various problems doing it from time to time, and when I do, I chalk it up to library incompatibility and I just rerun the installation. FWIW, copying files as a way of installing Zope is not a supported installation mechanism. If it works, great. If it doesn't, I reinstall. Doing any other sort of analysis if that works seems to be a waste of time to me. Note that handling dependency issues and file installation in an organized way is the domain, for Fedora, of RPM. There is indeed a Fedora Zope RPM for 2.7.3 at https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1701 . Maybe using the RPM would be more palatable for you?
I mean, I checked to make sure all the RPMS on both servers (both running RH FC2) were at same versions. And it WAS working on the new server for 3 days before this problem reared its ugly head....
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Nobody really knows (too many variables). You're literally right but if you've made a mistake and they're not exactly the same in some critical way, there could be a problem. Or maybe some files didn't get copied or were copied with improper permissions. Nobody but you can know. - C