Migration of foreman 0.4.3 to foreman 1.4¶

Unfortunately the upgrade of foreman 0.4.3 isn't as easy as upgrading the packages, since their are some problems avoiding a working database migration. The following process has been developed and tested on a Debian Squeeze setup with the help of Greg Sutcliffe (gwmngilfen) and should work for other setups, too:

1. Upgrade the system to Debian Wheezy in case you haven't already
2. Create a full dump of the database (important step! without it the update
   WILL fail)

   sudo -u postgres pg_dump foreman > /root/foreman_0.4.3.sql

3. Drop the foreman database and remove foreman

   sudo -u postgres dropdb foreman
   sudo dpkg -r foreman foreman-pgsql foreman-proxy

4. Backup /etc/foreman
   sudo cp -r /etc/foreman /root/etc_foreman_0.4.3
5. Add foreman sources.list entries

   cat <<EOF>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/foreman.list
   deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ wheezy stable
   deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ wheezy 1.2
   deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ squeeze 1.2
   EOF

6. Install some packages:
   apt-get install build-essential ruby1.9.1-dev
7. Install foreman-installer package and run the foreman-installer:

   sudo apt-get install foreman-installer
   sudo foreman-installer

   Should end in a working, clean installation of 1.4
   (otherwise fix all problems, because thats where we want to get)

   One possible helpful command to that extend could be:

   cd /usr/share/foreman; bundle install

   followed by

   dpkg --configure -a

   If dpkg is successful foreman-installer will be successful too.
   It can be required to re-run the foreman-installer, though.

8. Drop the 1.4 database and recreate it with the 0.4.3 dump

   sudo -u postgres dropdb foreman
   sudo -u postgres createdb foreman

   Populate it with the 0.4.2 backup

   sudo -u postgres psql foreman < /root/foreman_0.4.3.sql

9. Downgrade foreman to 1.1.1+debian1

   apt-get install foreman=1.1.1+debian1 foreman-postgresql=1.1.1+debian1

   This is necessary, since we need an older version of the upgrade scripts to get an upgradeable database state.

10. Edit /usr/share/foreman/lib/foreman/default_settings/loader.rb

    Comment out the set-commands for the oauth-Keys around line 79-82; Be careful to keep the "[" in front of line 79!

11. Apply the patch from https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/commit/fb0998a0ecf9e78822d321044b8eed89cbe7a9f9.patch
    (the test/lib/puppet_setting_test.rb part in the patch can be deleted; it does not apply since this is an install and not the source tree)
12. TRUNCATE audits table in foremann (yeah, thats necessary - sorry)
    sudo -u foreman psql foreman -c 'TRUNCATE audits'
13. Execute the migration scripts:
    sudo -u foreman bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production --trace
14. Now upgrade to 1.4.1 again
    sudo apt-get install foreman=1.4.1-1 foreman-postgresql=1.4.1-1
15. Add label column to hostgroup table:
    sudo -u foreman psql foreman -c 'ALTER TABLE hostgroups ADD label character varying(255);'
16. Comment line 3 and 4 in /usr/share/foreman/db/migrate/20130924145800_remove_unused_role_fields.rb
17. Run db migration scripts from 1.4

    foreman-rake db:migrate

    It might be, that it now complains, that 'label' column already exists (remember? we added it some steps before). If it does, just remove it from the database again with:

    ALTER TABLE hostgroups DROP label;

    Then re-run the migration script.

18. Revert the modification of 20130924145800_remove_unused_role_fields.rb
19. Done!