## Migrating to GForge HOWTO

### Updated 1/19/2004

Lots of people are moving from various other SourceForge codebases to GForge. Here's some notes on how to do this. Please post comments/questions/improvements to the forums.

SF 2.5 or SF 2.6 to GForge

The basic steps are:

- First run a `apt-get install gforge-sourceforge-transition`. This dumps the database into `/var/lib/sourceforge/sf_dump_for_gforge`.
- Now `mv /var/lib/sourceforge /var/lib/gforge`
- Now run a `apt-get install gforge`. This will find the database dump and import it automagically.
- If all goes well, `/var/lib/gforge/sf_dump_for_gforge` will be renamed `/var/lib/gforge/sf_dump_for_gforge.ok`. If something fails, it'll be renamed to `/var/lib/gforge/sf_dump_for_gforge.ko`.
- Note that `apt-get install gforge` will also remove the `gforge-sourceforge-transition` package.

You may read Jeremy Maziarz transition report found at http://members.cox.net/jmaziarz/tmp/HOWTO-sourceforge-gforge-transition.txt or in CVS docs/migrating-to-gforge-REPORT.txt

debian-sf to GForge
This has been done - see this thread. Theme preferences may go away, but they can easily be reset.

SF Enterprise to GForge
This has been done - see this thread on the forums. Looks like there are some database changes which might cause problems; not sure what those are.