Upgrading Sakai to 2.4

Ok, I've just upgraded our test sakai instance to the just released 2.4.0. Here are the notes of how I did it, this isn't a recommended pattern:

• Get source checkout from svn of 2.4.0
• Set maven.repo.remote in master/build.properties
• Check build works with maven bld
• Get patches used on 2.3.1 release
• Apply patches to login-tool and providers and fix rejections
• maven cln bld
• maven sakai:deploy-zip
• Copy sakai.tar.gz to server
• Stop existing tomcat and move out of the way
• Expand a clean tomcat 5.5.23
• Copy across conf/server.xml
• Copy across sakai folder from 2.3.1
• Copy across mysql connector from 2.3.1
• Upgrade the schema
• Copy across /portal redirection
• Start up tomcat

Of course it didn't go this well, and it took just over a couple of hours to get it all working. We need to patch login-tool for WebAuth authentication and the providers to configure the LDAP provider of user account information, but otherwise it is a fairly standard sakai install.