Updating the Database via changes to en.dat

[purplecat]

Me again :/ Still on bug 2152.

I wanted to change some of the labels in the settings for display. I found these in en.dat, changed them, updated the database and everything was working fine. But, all of a sudden, any new changes I make in en.dat don't appear to be getting picked up - this includes resetting everything using patch -R and updating the database* - I'm still getting my new labels turning up rather than the old ones.

What might I have done? (I did have a play with the test suites following some discussion recently and denise (I think) mentioned these can corrupt the database in some way).

I'm using a dreamhack, in case that's relevant.

*stop-apache

$LJHOME/bin/upgrading/update-db.pl -r -p --innodb
$LJHOME/bin/upgrading/update-db.pl -r --cluster=all --innodb
$LJHOME/bin/upgrading/texttool.pl load

start-apache


Comments

[denise]

Yup, changes to existing strings aren't ever read in from en.dat and from .text files unless you run texttool.pl with a particular flag, which we don't do because it overwrites all the work that's been done on site copy through the onsite /admin/translate tool.

Convention is to remove string.name, add string.name2, and put string.name in deadphrases.dat.