How to update extensions? Can I update all extensions at once?

justshipit

Same as in the head - how to update extensions? Can we update them all at once?

Also, is there any automate way to update them (however, might be not the wisest idea).

justshipit

Answering myself:

You update them with composer update command in your Flarum root installation.

If you just want to update particular extension instead of all, use composer update [author]/[extensionname]

Not sure tho, is there an automatic (& safe) way of updating all extensions.

Davis

justshipit there's no automatic way as it could break things when you're not around to fix them, maximizing downtime.

7h3ev1l

justshipit If you really want auto updating u can create linux cronjob. More info in google ?

jordanjay29

justshipit You could take a page out of @Kulga's devflarum script. I don't think he publishes his script, but he runs one on his system that automatically runs composer update at the right interval. With a little bash coding you could make a batch file and set the system to run it at a certain time every day. Davis's warning is prudent here, if you're not around, things can break and run away from you before you can fix it.

But if you want to do it, it can be done.

ctupramod

justshipit You update them with composer update command in your Flarum root installation.

Is this still work? Can I update all the extensions in my forum with that command?

Kulga

This can be contained within a cronjob. But if there's issues, making a bash script and calling with crontab can work.

Something like this would update composer every 2 days at midnight. Use crontab -e as the user expected to run the command

00 00  */2 * *   ( cd flarum_root/location; composer update )

justshipit

Thanks for answers.

Yeah, that's my concerns - not very wise idea if s*it hits the fan and I am not around ?

One more question: seems like installing/updating extensions can be done only with sudo upfront, otherwise commond like shows info that certain things cannot be completed because I have no permission, yet telling me I should not use sudo. Does anyone else ignore that and install/updates with sudo privileges?

Kulga

justshipit Does anyone else ignore that and install/updates with sudo privileges?

sudo invokes superuser privileges which trumps permissions
This should not be needed
what are the permissions of the file, user and group and what user are you using to run the command?

this can be found with ls -l /flarum/directory and echo $USER
Surround output in backticks `

justshipit

Kulga

$destiny@xxxxxx:/var/www/html/discuss$ ls -l

total 240
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       4958 Apr 10 10:29 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       1083 Apr 10 10:29 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root      11090 Apr 10 10:29 Vagrantfile
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        319 Apr 10 10:29 admin.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        317 Apr 10 10:29 api.php
drwxrwxr-x  5 root     www-data   4096 Jun  1 13:23 assets
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       2220 Jun  1 13:06 composer.json
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root     175824 Jun  1 13:15 composer.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data    454 Jun  1 07:41 config.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        381 Apr 10 10:29 flarum
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root        319 Apr 10 10:29 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root       1480 Apr 10 10:29 readme.md
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root       4096 Apr 10 10:29 scripts
drwxrwxr-x  8 root     www-data   4096 Apr 10 10:29 storage
drwxr-xr-x 34 root     root       4096 Jun  1 13:15 vendor

$destiny@xxxxxx:/var/www/html/discuss$ echo $USER
destiny

luceos

@Franz would a check in our debug command make sense that does something what justshipit proposes? Eg:

get_current_user() and posix_getpwuid(fileowner(public_path('index.php')))

With some sanity checks ofcourse.

Kulga

So the files are owned by root and some relevant ones are in the www-data group. Switch the directory / files ownership to your user and it should no longer need root (sudo)

sudo chown -R $USER /var/www/html/discuss

Franz

luceos Sorry, I was gone for a few days.

So this would show the current owner of the index.php file? (And maybe compare it to that of some other places?)

justshipit

@luceos & @Franz when I do composer update I am getting:

http://imgur.com/a/yCVfI

luceos

justshipit you don't have sufficient memory on the machine.. How much do you have?

justshipit

@luceos I run lowest tier of Digital Ocean which is like 512MB.

And it was working before just fine - I was able to update my packages.

SOLUTION
If you are running out of memory, this is what helped me:

sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

If this helped you, please do like this thread!