Updating Plugins

[joseph]

are you able to run simple commands like "git log" ?

[mononym]

Simple git commands (stauts & log, tested with and without sudo -u www-data) give:

fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/app/data/plugins/discourse-translator'
To add an exception for this directory, call:

        git config --global --add safe.directory /app/data/plugins/discourse-translator

When trying to solve the ownership with git config --add safe.directory /app/data/plugins/discourse-translator (with and without sudo -u www-data) I get :

fatal: not in a git directory

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In the case of the translator plugin, I could maybe reinstall instead of update. As it is just a connection to a LibreTranslate instance. But that's probably not a solution for other plugins.

[joseph]

mmm, I am stumped. Why would it say not a git directory . Is there no '.git' ? There is a /app/data/plugins/discourse-translator/.git right ?

[mononym]

Yes. This is the content:

root@973fc516-e3d4-4f67-b18b-3f55c5bd086f:/app/data/plugins/discourse-translator# ls -asl
total 3944
   4 drwxr-xr-x 11 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 .
   4 drwxr-xr-x  4 cloudron cloudron    4096 Feb 25 05:03 ..
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron     110 May  8  2024 .discourse-compatibility
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron      60 May  8  2024 .eslintrc.cjs
   4 drwxr-xr-x  8 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 .git
   4 drwxr-xr-x  3 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 .github
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron      88 May  8  2024 .gitignore
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron      62 May  8  2024 .prettierrc.cjs
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron      51 May  8  2024 .rubocop.yml
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron      50 May  8  2024 .streerc
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron      67 May  8  2024 .template-lintrc.cjs
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron     134 May  8  2024 Gemfile
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron    1228 May  8  2024 Gemfile.lock
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron    1080 May  8  2024 LICENSE
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron     227 May  8  2024 README.md
   4 drwxr-xr-x  4 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 assets
   4 drwxr-xr-x  3 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 config
   4 drwxr-xr-x  3 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 db
3668 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron 3755037 May  8  2024 example.gif
   4 drwxr-xr-x  5 cloudron cloudron    4096 Feb  8 05:04 gems
   4 drwxr-xr-x  3 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 lib
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron     213 May  8  2024 package.json
   8 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron    6541 May  8  2024 plugin.rb
   4 drwxr-xr-x  3 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 services
  12 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron   11777 May  8  2024 setup.png
   4 drwxr-xr-x  8 cloudron cloudron    4096 May  8  2024 spec
   4 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron     208 May  8  2024 translator.yml
 160 -rw-r--r--  1 cloudron cloudron  161368 May  8  2024 yarn.lock

The issue is exactly the same in the /app/data/plugins/discourse-data-explorer directory.

FYI, I recently pulled an update for my GravCMS and there sudo -u www-data git config --add safe.directory <theme/directory> + sudo -u www-data git pull worked as expected.

[mononym]

As a test, I tried deleting the folder and installing the plugin anew following the steps in the documentation. The plugin (translator) was displayed correctly but not working for some reason (unable to detect the post language I guess). I finally restored a backup made just before this test.

[joseph]

@mononym I can give this a try in a fresh install. What should I be testing after the post is installed?

[mononym]

I guess first one has to somehow install an old version of the discourse plugin. Mine, the discourse-translator plugin, is currently at commit eb55d60. I don't know git well enough to do that instead of a "regular" clone of the latest version. Thus, that differs a little from the Cloudron Discourse docs. Rebuild Discourse with the plugin.

Once done, navigate to the plugin folder, either in app/data/plugins/discourse-translator or app/code/plugins/discourse-translator, and try to git pull the latest version of the plugin. That's where it's stuck right now.

[mononym]

Still trying to solve this before Discourse rolls out the breaking UI changes... What would be the correct procedure to delete and reinstall a plugin ?

[joseph]

I think deleting the directory and restarting the app uninstalls the plugin. After that, you can reinstall it with https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/discourse/#installing-plugins

[mononym]

@joseph Perfect, thank you ! That did the job. And to my surprise, the settings (LibreTranslate API and URL) were still in place !