Updating a heavily modded forum

[tapirul]

Hello,
I am contemplating upgrading to SMF 1.1 RC-3 (from RC-2), but I have a quite heavy modded forum (about 27 mods). What would be the best way to upgrade?
I think one way is to uninstall all mods, upgrade, and the try to reinstall them (if they work anymore), but what should I do if I cannot uninstall some mods? (it happened in the past)
Thanks a lot. I know there were a lot of questions asked about updating to SMF1.1RC3
Tapirul

[codenaught]

You wouldn't really need to uninstall each mod as the upgrade package overrights every file anyway. Also most mods don't remove database data when they uninstall.

Most mods should work with SMF 1.1 RC3 without too many problems. The biggest issue will probably be a mod that specifies only to install for specific versions of SMF. In this case you can add at the end of the package manager url ;version_emulate=1.1-RC2 and that should let those packages install with the possibility of some errors of not being able to edit a file.

For mods that actually need to be edited so they can search for code in SMF 1.1 RC3 that has changed from SMF 1.1 RC2, give them sometime and they should be updated in not too long.

In any case I would recommend upgrading because of a php security bug for older versions of php.

[tapirul]

thanks a lot
Now, when I (re)install mods that modify the database, I will probably get an "table already exists" message (if I didn't delete the tables before). Would that be a problem? That is, does the rest of the mod-script runs?

PS I tried, for now,  to install only the patch (1.1rc2 -> 1.1rc2-2), but I got an error with QueryString.php, I will probably need to do it manually