So when 5.0 is released how will the update process work?  

 

1. For example, I assume all my shares will be fine but what about some of the scripts I have installed like air video, etc?  Will they work or will I have to wait till they are updated?  

2.  Will it totally over right everything like a fresh install?  What if I want to start over with a fresh install but keep my shares, can I do this?

 

thanks

Generally, everything should work fine.  The change that may impact most is the upgrade of the underlying Slackware distro to 13.1.  I have found only one issue so far on my boxes with the Slacky upgrade, and that  had to do with quoted strings in regexps in bash.

Check out Limetechs normal post when he posts updates. It more or less gives you a list of things to do to upgrade. Here is an example.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7361.0

I looked at that thread but I didn't see what I wanted.  When I upgrade to 5.0 I think I want to start with a clean install but keep my shares and users but get rid of some of the plugins and apps I installed like airvideo and crashplan, etc will I be able to do this?

Yes. Simply replace your "GO" script and they will no longer be installed on reboot.

 

Most of the plugins have a high chance of functioning perfectly fine on unRAId 5.0beta2.

Yes. Simply replace your "GO" script and they will no longer be installed on reboot.

 

Most of the plugins have a high chance of functioning perfectly fine on unRAId 5.0beta2.

 

Really it's that's easy? Wow

I have been running 5.0b2 for a while.  It works fine with all of the addons I use (which is only a few like UPS support, powerdown script, and unmenu).

 

The install changes some of the security files (e.g., passwd).  So once you install it, it is not so easy to go back to 4.x.  But if you keep a backup of your config directory, you can replace the security files and go back if you need to.

 

But once you install it, there is a security script that you need to run.  Once you do that, you may not be able to go back to the 4.x world (I'm not sure about this).  I created some custom Samba shares that allow me to run 5.0b2 without running the security script, which I still haven't run.  Note that I do NOT use user shares, so I am unsure if the security update is required for user shared to function properly.  I do know that the disk shares will not work until you run the security script.

 

Hope this helps.  Let me know if I can help answer other questions about 5.0b2.

But once you install it, there is a security script that you need to run.  Once you do that, you may not be able to go back to the 4.x world (I'm not sure about this).

 

Just as a piece of information (don't blame me if sth goes wrong):

I have successfully changed back to 4.6 from 5.0b2 (updated from 4.6 to 5.0b2 doing all the steps in the readme.txt incl. 'New Permissions' ).

I couldn't get rid of a number of problems (worst of all accessing some of my shares) so I had to return.

 

Apart from backup copies of bzimage, bzroot I made backup copies of "config/smbpasswd" and "shares" (folder), maybe some other files.

 

I'm not 100% sure but I think AirVideo was working flawlessly. I did have to uninstall the php add-on.

 

Thanks, I don't use airvideo or crashplan anymore so I want them removed.

I couldn't live without AirVideo 

What are you using instead?

I run plex on my Mac mini and they have a app for iOS.  It is freaking amazing!