Updating Plugins

[mononym]

Hello. I want to update the discourse-translator plugin due to coming core changes in Discourse. With v3.4 a banner appeared:

[Admin Notice] One of your themes or plugins needs updating for compatibility with upcoming Discourse core changes. (id:discourse.post-menu-widget-overrides) Identified plugin: 'discourse-translator'

When looking at the plugins (commit hash) in the Discourse admin settings menu, it seems like the plugins do not update automatically.

Is updating plugins identical to installing them ?

[joseph]

discourse does not auto update plugins (and neither does cloudron). you have to go into each plugin and git pull the latest changes .

I recommend taking a backup and updating each plugin one by one. These things break more often than not.

[mononym]

Thanks for the reply. Sounds good. I wonder if I have to repeat the installation procedure just with a pull instead of clone like this :

cd /app/code/plugins/<plugin-repo> # installed plugin directory
git config --global --add safe.directory /app/data/plugins/<plugin-repo> # make git work 
git pull <plugin-repo>  # pull instead of clone
cd .. # continue with install procedure
chown -R cloudron:cloudron <plugin-dir>
cd /app/code
gosu cloudron:cloudron bundle exec rake plugin:install_all_gems
gosu cloudron:cloudron bundle exec rake db:migrate
gosu cloudron:cloudron bundle exec rake assets:precompile

or only the pull ?

[joseph]

@mononym said in Updating Plugins:

gosu cloudron:cloudron bundle exec rake db:migrate
gosu cloudron:cloudron bundle exec rake assets:precompile

These two can be skipped, I think. The package does this already on a app restart (you should restart the app after you git update).