[CentOS] OwnCloud vs NextCloud

Mon Feb 24 21:59:25 UTC 2020
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 02/24/2020 04:16 AM, LAHAYE Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've built my owncloud 17 rpm for centos-7, but I didn't published it because it cannot upgrade the v10.
> To Upgrade I did:
> Build by hand all intermediate versions and installed them in /usr (ugly I know), overwriting the v10 rpm files and did all upgrade processes until v16.
> Then. I did rpm -Uvh the v17 and ran the upgrade process.
> This was the only quick and dirty way to upgrade to recent version while keeping things in rpm database.
>
> Nextcloud has a ticket to enable the ability to upgrade from multiple major versions. Once this is available I'm sure that we'll see an up to date version of nextcloud in EPEL.
>
> For now, you need to hack.
>
> My work was based on this:
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/scren/nextcloud/builds/
>
> My source RPM: http://olivier.lahaye1.free.fr/SRPMS/nextcloud-17.0.2-1.el7.src.rpm
> You can build it using rpmbuild --rebuild nextcloud-17.0.2-1.el7.src.rpm
> Keep in mind that you have to upgrade manually in /usr all previous major version up to v16 and do all the database update before upgrading to the generated rpms. (use the highest release for each major release)
>
> OF course, if it's a new install, it should work out of the box.
>
> I didn't build the v18 as it was v18.0.0.0.0 by the time I worked on it and I wanted a somehow stable version.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Olivier.
>
> Le 23/02/2020 04:17, « CentOS au nom de H » <centos-bounces at centos.org au nom de agents at meddatainc.com> a écrit :
>
>     On February 22, 2020 9:02:05 PM EST, "bryn1u85 ." <m.bryn1u at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >The Nextcloud has more features and all are for free. The ownCloud has
>     >some
>     >for enterprise features which are paid. Soo i think the choice is
>     >clear.
>     >
>     >niedz., 23 lut 2020 o 02:35 H <agents at meddatainc.com> napisał(a):
>     >
>     >> I am planning to install either ownCloud or NextCloud on a CentOS 7
>     >VPS
>     >> server I control. I have previously used ownCloud on another server
>     >but
>     >> have not updated the host application for quite some time. On this
>     >new
>     >> server, I am not sure which one is the "best" and since I am doing a
>     >new
>     >> install I need to decide which one to use.
>     >>
>     >> Looking at the Android apps for these cloud solutions, they both seem
>     >to
>     >> have a fair number of critical reviews...
>     >>
>     >> Does anyone have a preference and, if so, why?
>     >>
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>     Ok. It seems, however, EPEL has version 10 of NextCloud whereas it is up to version 17?
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Thank you, will save these instructions.