Updated from Mediawiki 1.7.2 to 1.8.3 upon unmasking of ebuild. Editing an article afterwards gives an error like: from function „Block::load“. MySQL reported error „1054: Unknown column 'ipb_anon_only' in 'where clause' Reproducible: Didn't try That update step requires maintenance/update.php to be run after the installation. To complicate things further update.php requires the wikidb user to have drop privileges for the first time (running Mediawiki since 1.3.7).
Did you have this problem after following the update path in mediawiki ? Or did you get the error without following the update ? 1.6.9 will be staying for a while as there is important support for PHP4 and suprisingly a lot of PHP4 systems in the wild. 1.7.x Is getting a lot less attention than 1.8 at the moment. 1.9.2 I know that they fixed some upgrade problems, maybe one of this problem was present in 1.8.3. Could you try the 1.9.2 ? I will take some time to investigate this if you can try a few things. If this is a real problem, I am afraid I can only change the documentation on upgrades and wait for the upstream to work it out.
This seems to be a very well known problem, I cannot test these for at least 2 days. But I would look in those at the end of the week. http://www.mwusers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-3303.html http://mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10700
I usually upgrade once a new version becomes available. The solution to this problem is quite simple: Just run the update.php script in the maintenance directory of Mediawiki after allowing the relevant MySQL user to drop tables. Maybe it is enough to simply add this as info after the ebuild is installed.
Try with a newer version, 1.8.3 was removed.
