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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Under Consideration: Migrate the Forums to Discourse Post 303045032 by Neo on Wednesday 11th of March 2020 03:39:42 AM

03-11-2020

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Well, over at meta discourse, they have been "kinda bullying me" to upgrade vB3 to vB4, but when I started the discussion over there with the fact it is a non-starter.

First, they told me to migrate to vB4; then they told me the would help us upgrade to vB3 and we would all work together, then they backtracked and closed the discussion.

I guess when you have forum which has been around for over 15 years and helped upwards of 600 million unique users, this is the payback Smilie

What is the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished".

LOL

Even thought there is no upgrade path to get vB4 (and has not been for some time). See control panel:

Under Consideration: Migrate the Forums to Discourse-screen-shot-2020-03-11-22831-pmjpg

It's obvious we cannot buy vB4 updates... and it's obvious that Discourse it not going to help with vB3. They have made this clear by kinda bulling me over there, advising strongly we upgrade to an upgrade which does not exist for us.

LOL

So, as I thought before. I will have to do this all my myself; but at least we have a starting point vbulletin.rb script I can modify.

Let's THANK Discourse for that. and THANK them for Discourse.

I understand these folks at Discourse. Dealing with vB forums are a pain (especially vB3) and not fun at all. I know, I have owned one for over 15 years Smilie

The bottom line is that Discourse does not support vB3 migration to Discourse, they have made that very clear over the past few days.

(and it is perfectly OK they don't.... I understand their viewpoint, but they do not understand vB versions, licensing.... and make recommendations which are impossible to follow... sadly)

In a nutshell, it all boils down to Discourse does not support vB3 migration, period.

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sbuild-update

SBUILD-UPDATE(1)						   Debian sbuild						  SBUILD-UPDATE(1)

NAME

       sbuild-update - update, upgrade, and clean an sbuild chroot with apt-get

SYNOPSIS

       sbuild-update  [-h|--help]  [-V|--version]  [--arch=architecture] [-u|--update] [-g|--upgrade] [-d|--dist-upgrade] [-c|--clean] [-a|--auto-
       clean] [-r|--autoremove] CHROOT1 [CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]
       sbuild-update -k|--keygen
       (DEPRECATED) sbuild-upgrade [-h|--help] [-V|--version] CHROOT1 [CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]
       (DEPRECATED) sbuild-distupgrade [-h|--help] [-V|--version] CHROOT1 [CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]
       (DEPRECATED) sbuild-clean [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [-c|--clean] [-a|--autoclean] [-r|--autoremove] CHROOT1 [CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]

DESCRIPTION

       sbuild-update runs apt-get inside the specified chroot performing  update,  upgrade,  dist-upgrade,  clean,  autoclean,	and/or	autoremove
       depending on the options specified on the command line.

       sbuild-upgrade,	sbuild-distupgrade,  and  sbuild-clean,  are  deprecated.  They  now simply run sbuild-update with the appropriate options
       (--upgrade or --dist-upgrade for sbuild-upgrade or sbuild-distupgrade respectively) along  with	whatever  arguments  were  passed  in  the
       scripts.

OPTIONS

   Actions
       -h, --help
	      Display this manual.

       -V, --version
	      Print version information.

       --arch=architecture
	      Update chroot for the architecture specified.

       -u, --update
	      Perform an apt-get update.

       -g, --upgrade
	      Perform an apt-get upgrade.

       -d, --dist-upgrade
	      Perform an apt-get dist-upgrade.

       -c, --clean
	      Perform an apt-get clean.

       -a, --autoclean
	      Perform an apt-get autoclean.

       -r, --autoremove
	      Perform an apt-get autoremove.

       -k, --keygen
	      Generate a GPG public/private key pair for self-signing local apt archives, used for installation of dependency packages.  Note that
	      this requires a significant amount of entropy (randomness) and may hang on systems with poor entropy sources, such as headless  sys-
	      tems  without direct user input.	In this situation, it is advisable to create the key on a trusted local system, and copy the files
	      to the build system by hand from /var/lib/sbuild/apt-keys/.

   Chroot selection
       CHROOT The chroot to use.  Note that 'o', 's', 't', 'u' and 'e' may be used as abbreviations for 'oldstable', 'stable', 'testing',  'unsta-
	      ble' and 'experimental', respectively.

EXAMPLES

       To update the unstable chroot:

       % sbuild-update --update unstable

       To upgrade the unstable chroot:

       % sbuild-update --upgrade unstable

       To clean the unstable chroot:

       % sbuild-update --clean unstable

       To perform an update, dist-upgrade, clean, autoclean, and autoremove for the unstable chroot:

       % sbuild-update -udcar unstable

AUTHORS

       Roger Leigh.
       Andres Mejia.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.
       Copyright (C) 2010 Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>.

SEE ALSO

       sbuild(1), sbuild-apt(1),

Version 0.63.2							    18 Aug 2012 						  SBUILD-UPDATE(1)