Upgrading using Softaculous after the fact?

[wakewatcher]

I installed cmsms on host A and then moved it all to host B. Host B has Softaculous. Is there a way I can trick Softaculous into thinking it installed it in the first place so that I could use it to manage future upgrades?

As an aside there must be a good reason that cmsms isn't upgradable from the administration page. Would be nice if it pinged the mother ship to see if there was something new and then the option to upgrade.

[paulbaker]

Would be nice if it pinged the mother ship to see if there was something new and then the option to upgrade.

We'd all love that I think. CMSMS does the former (that's why you'll sometimes see a notification that a new CMSMS version is available). But it doesn't do the latter. Too many opportunities for things to go wrong with 3rd party modules.

But the idea comes up from time to time in Feature ideas.

[uniqu3]

Too many opportunities for things to go wrong with 3rd party modules..

Exactly, it is nice to have a "click" option but there are already many reports about "broken sites" after upgrading because many do not follow procedure and make sure everything is actually compatible with new version.
Now imagine this "one click" upgrade and badly setup server, timing out, permission problems, old modules, old UDT's and and and...

[wakewatcher]

OK. Makes sense. I like what SMF does in that for their upgrades you can actually see what is changing. E.g. in x.php find "foo foo foo" and replace with "bar bar bar bar." While SMF has the capability to programmatically upgrade I generally do it by hand just to get a sense of what's changing.