How does cloudron handle updates to extra, user installed extensions?

[dennisj]

Cloudron makes it possible to install extensions that don't come bundled with the cloudron mediawiki app. https://docs.cloudron.io/packages/mediawiki/#installing

I'm new to the cloudron system and I presume any such extra extensions will need to be manually updated after a cloudron mediawiki app update? Is this correct? If not correct, how are such updates handled?

Thanks.

[james]

Hello @dennisj and welcome to the Cloudron forum

@dennisj said in How does cloudron handle updates to extra, user installed extensions?:

I'm new to the cloudron system and I presume any such extra extensions will need to be manually updated after a cloudron mediawiki app update? Is this correct?

This is correct.

[scooke]

@dennisj

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions/Installation_and_upgrade/en

Go easy on the extensions! They often need different update approaches!

I've previously managed a Mediawiki install manually, and it was a lot of work. Cloudron makes the initial installation easier; more importantly for me, it makes backing up the installation easy. I screwed up my Mediawiki more than once with updating extensions, and had to start all over. With Cloudron at least, I just need to revert to a/the previous working backup.

[dennisj]

Thanks James and Shane.