[Setup] Problem upgrading GRUF to Plone 4.2

[Kees Hink]

Looking at http://plone.org/products/groupuserfolder and 
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.GroupUserFolder, it looks like 
there's no Plone 4-compatible release.

On 11/23/2012 04:35 PM, Praful wrote:
> Hello
>
> I upgraded my Plone 2.5.1 site to Plone 3.3.5 and am now trying to upgrade
> to Plone 4.2. When running the dry-run option to upgrade to 4.2, I get the
> following error:
>
>      Ran upgrade step: Update Join action URL
>      Dublin Core metadata definition updated.
>      Ran upgrade step: Upgrade DCMI metadata storage in portal_metadata
>      Upgrade aborted. Error:
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File
> "c:\plone42\eggs\products.cmfplone-4.2.1.1-py2.6.egg\Products\CMFPlone\MigrationTool.py",
> line 178, in upgrade
>          step['step'].doStep(setup)
>        File
> "c:\plone42\eggs\products.genericsetup-1.7.2-py2.6.egg\Products\GenericSetup\upgrade.py",
> line 140, in doStep
>          self.handler(tool)
>        File
> "c:\plone42\eggs\plone.app.upgrade-1.2.1-py2.6.egg\plone\app\upgrade\v40\alphas.py",
> line 490, in addRecursiveGroupsPlugin
>          plugins = acl.plugins
>      AttributeError: 'GroupUserFolder' object has no attribute 'plugins'
>      End of upgrade path, migration has finished
>      The upgrade path did NOT reach current version
>      Migration has failed
>      Dry run selected, transaction aborted
>
> I've read that I don't need GRUF in Plone 4. If true, I don't mind if GRUF
> is removed either during the upgrade to 4.2 or in 3.  I understand (correct
> me if I'm wrong) that GRUF provides permissioning by grouping users. My
> Plone installation isn't that large and has only about 20 users (it's an
> intranet) and I don't mind recreating groups, permissions the Plone 4 way
> whatever that involves - help appreciated!
>
> Please can someone let me know how to proceed. Should I just remove GRUF -
> if so, how?
>
> Although I set up the site, this was five years ago and that involved
> creating folders in Plone and some CSS - so I'm not that familiar with Plone
> or Python (although I know many other programming languages). I was
> pleasantly surprised at the time to get as far as I did in Plone 2.5 without
> writing any code!
>
> Any help, links appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Praful
>
>
>
>
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