301653 - Upgrades from 2.18 with a new localconfig file may lose old Field Value choices

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311047

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Steps to Reproduce
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1) Take a 2.18 database, install a brand-new tarball of Bugzilla 2.20.
2) Run checksetup, it creates localconfig with no choices for OS/Version/etc.
3) Run checksetup again, it upgrades the database, and fills the Field Value 
   choices with the defaults, instead of whatever was in the 2.18 database.

So you can "lose" all of your old choices if you don't have the same localconfig
file.

This is easy to work-around (just copy over your old localconfig and
re-upgrade), but could be a possible issue for some people. (I just ran into it
myself, upgrading a test installation where I didn't have the old localconfig
available.)

Comment 1

[Nick Barnes]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311047 ***