Our Drupal installation should be upgraded to version 6 (from 5), and here we'll document the process.

The update to Drupal 6 was done 2009-04.

Cloning the Database for Testing

Instead of setting up an additional instance of the site, I simply backed up (mysqldump) and started upgrading. To move between servers, I simply copied the database's mysql directory.

Contributed Modules In Use with 5

It looks like some contributed modules we use with 5 are not ready for 6, but we can flesh out other issues while we wait (or discover an alternative).

For Drupal 6:
✓ = Official Release
none = Development Snapshot
✗ = Not Available

• Event
• Image ✓
• Mail Edit (needed by Subscriptions, but not need in version 6 of Subscriptions)
• Diff ✓
• HTML to Text ✗ (now part of 6) (needed by Subscriptions)
• Taxonomy Access Control
• Taxonomy Context ✗
• Taxonomy HTML ✗
• Update Status ✗ (now part of 6)
• Subscriptions ✓ (we have enabled:
  • Content Subscriptions
  • Subscriptions
  • Subscriptions Mail
  • Subscriptions UI
  • Taxonomy Subscriptions

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Event

As of core update, using Event development snapshot.

Event, with its content type and calandar display, should maybe be replaced with Date CCK fields and Calandar View.

Image

Image should perhaps be replaced with a CCK ImageField enabled node type.

• Vocabulary Index