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).

[mononym]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I'm already stuck at the git command. I've tried the following:

cd /app/code/plugins/discourse-translator
sudo -u www-data git pull
# 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
sudo -u www-data git config --global --add safe.directory /app/data/plugins/discourse-translator
# error: could not lock config file /var/www/.gitconfig: Read-only file system
sudo -u www-data git config --add safe.directory /app/data/plugins/discourse-translator  # without the global flag
# fatal: not in a git directory

[joseph]

@mononym said in Updating Plugins:

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

remove the --global . It will then create the .git/config in the same diretory

[mononym]

I tried to as well but I get a fatal: not in a git directory error when removing the --global flag.

[joseph]

Strange. Are you running this in /app/data/plugins/<plugin-repo> ? Which should be a git repo (check for .git subfolder) ?

[mononym]

@joseph Yes, I'm wondering about the same thing.

root@973fc516-e3d4-4f67-b18b-3f55c5bd086f:/app/code/plugins/discourse-translator# ls -a
.                         .github          .template-lintrc.cjs  assets       lib           spec
..                        .gitignore       Gemfile               config       package.json  translator.yml
.discourse-compatibility  .prettierrc.cjs  Gemfile.lock          db           plugin.rb     yarn.lock
.eslintrc.cjs             .rubocop.yml     LICENSE               example.gif  services
.git                      .streerc         README.md             gems         setup.png

[mononym]

@joseph said in Updating Plugins:

/data/

My bad. I was in app/code/.... Did not know the plugin exists in both locations.

But unfortunately the git command still gives a fatal: not in a git directory even in the data subdirectory.

[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 !