I know you folks do not support GL installed/upgraded by Fantastico. I did not realize this until long after my site was up with content. I am willing to do footwork and I'm sure there are other GL users who are similarly screwed. If I find a solution I would like to post it here.
I have a mostly functional GL 1.4.1 site. I thought it was fully functional until I tried to upgrade to 1.5.1. This failed with theme errors (fixable) but then database errors and lots of broken functionality.
Restoring my GL 1.4.1 site from backup and after getting feedback from one of my site users about missing RSS feeds, I noticed that issues must have been introduced during a previous upgrade _to_ GL 1.4.1 from a prior version. Missing features include Content Syndication (no admin component and GL not creating RSS feed data), bulk delete of user submissions does not work, etc.
So two questions:
1. I am wondering if re-applying a modified version of the install scripts from previous versions might give me the missing stuff that Fantastico botched. Based on the version history, I would try to re-install each of these versions:
geeklog-1.3.9sr2
geeklog-1.4.1
geeklog-1.5.1
I started reading through the install script but see there is some logic in there to determine the current version, etc. I'd have to get around that and could be a huge can of worms. Is it worth it?
2. Alternatively, I have a mostly ok geeklog 1.4.1 database and I'd like to preserve the content. What is the best way to import this data (just stories and links to images?) into a fresh 1.5.1 install?
I tried doing this once by running mysql to load the 1.5.1 database with 1.4.1 content. That didn't work, I think something about duplicate keys.
Sorry, I didn't start taking notes with actual error messages until recently and the last time I looked at this stuff was late 2008.