How to install an older version of BOA

It's not possible at this

Posted by Mojah on May 7, 2013 at 8:08pm

It's not possible at this stage, but there is a feature request: http://drupal.org/node/1987936

Actually I was able to...

Posted by nitin.sareen.mca on May 8, 2013 at 2:50am

Thanks for the reference link, but since I had to do this I hacked individual scripts to successfully install 2.0.5. I altered _AEGIR_VERSION & _INSTALLER_VERSION, inside the individual installers and was able to achieve it.

Please attach a copy of the

Posted by Mojah on May 8, 2013 at 9:51pm

Please attach a copy of the installers ;)

Thank you.

How did you

Posted by Mojah on May 8, 2013 at 10:29pm

How did you overcome?

Barracuda [Wed May  8 22:24:03 UTC 2013] ==> ERROR: This BARRACUDA version is outdated and will not work correctly
Barracuda [Wed May  8 22:24:03 UTC 2013] ==> Please download and use new version

Step by step what i did

Posted by nitin.sareen.mca on May 9, 2013 at 2:42am

1)wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/BOA.sh.txt
2)bash BOA.sh.txt
3)vi /usr/local/bin/boa
4)Modify functions - init_start, init_finish & init_setup - Disable removal & download of Barracuda & Octopus scripts
5)Download Barracuda & Octopus scripts manually and place them in - /var/backups/
cd /var/backups
wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/versions/BARRACUDA.sh.txt
wget -q -U iCab http://files.aegir.cc/versions/OCTOPUS.sh.txt

6)Edit both to changes version of BOA to the required 2.0.5 using flags(all instances) - _AEGIR_VERSION & _INSTALLER_VERSION
7)According to the domain setup run boa install

I've done this 4 times already now and haven't faced any issues as of yet. Hope this'll be of some help to you too :)

Thank you so much. I'll try

Posted by Mojah on May 9, 2013 at 10:59am

Thank you so much. I'll try this out right away.

Out of interest what is the

Posted by jamiet on May 9, 2013 at 12:37pm

Out of interest what is the reason for wanting to install an old version of the scripts?

Legacy support for D5 sites

Posted by Mojah on May 9, 2013 at 2:31pm

Legacy support for D5 sites and php 5.2x.

@nitin.sareen.mca - once again thank you so much for taking the time to write out the steps. I was not able to get it to work with the latest 2.0.8 release which I believe may have had some additional checks coded in. Did you manage to get this working with 2.0.8?

Good news! http://drupal.org/node/1987936 - omega8cc committed code to continue support for php5.2 in BOA for a little while longer.

Testing that out now!

very helpful

Posted by planetlarg on May 9, 2013 at 9:51pm

I found this helpful. I copied your step by step instructions to the BOA guide I wrote to help me understand my system. Now I will know what to do in future.

It's in the doc at http://wiki.internetmachines.co.uk/mediawiki/index.php?title=BOA in the section "install an older version of BOA".

Is this OK?

If you object I will remove it. If you are happy I will leave it.

Many thanks,
Nick

Absolutely fine and more than happy to contribute

Posted by nitin.sareen.mca on May 10, 2013 at 3:34am

Glad if things worked for anyone as i myself desperately needed an older version since some of my sites broke after installing 2.0.8, still digging out reasons for the same. But since time was running against me i had no choice but to hack the scripts.
Mojah, I'm not sure why the steps didn't worked for you as I did exactly the same 4 times already and yes on 2.0.8 and it worked for me. Please share the issues you've faced, maybe I'll check back to see if i've missed anything.
Planetlarg, were you able to install this successfully? Please let me know if you've faced any issues as well since you're putting in together in a doc it might be very helpful for other fellow BOA users.

i will report issues I find

Posted by planetlarg on May 12, 2013 at 11:05am

I have to work on other things for the next few weeks. When I return to this I will tell you how I get on.