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Modified a bit. This should show for anyone who has GnuCash installed. |
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The 2.7.3 ebuild I have in my overlay does have a postinst note about |
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this as well, but I think this is important enough to tell them as soon |
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as possible and on systems that may never have had GnuCash installed but |
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will be working with files/databases that are made by GnuCash 2.6. |
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Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change |
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Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@g.o> |
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Posted: 2018-01-10 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: app-office/gnucash |
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Along with changes to updates to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has |
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changed the schema [1] it uses for both databases and files. GnuCash |
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will automatically modify the file or database in place upon open. |
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Therefore, it is imperative that you back up any files or databases |
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before using GnuCash 2.7 in case you run into an issue and want or need |
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to revert back to 2.6. |
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Instructions for backing up are as follows: |
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For XML (plain files): |
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$ cp /path/to/file.gnucash /path/to/file.gnucash.bak |
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For MySQL: |
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$ mysqldump gnucash_db | mysql gnucash_db_bak |
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For PostgreSQL: |
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$ createdb -U dbadmin -T gnucash_db -O gnucash_user gnucash_db_bak |
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For SQLite: |
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$ cp /path/to/gnucash/sqlite.file.gnucash /path/to/gnucash/sqlite.file.gnucash.bak |
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[1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a |
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