Find requirement specs in a Plone buildout setup

Question

I have a Plone site (something around 4.2.4, telling from a version.txt in the root directory) which I\'d like to update to a recent version (I found this how-t

Answer 1

It could be that you have on your buildout configuration to not look for a newer version if you already have one locally. There should be a line like this:

newest = false

You could try to either remove your local cache of eggs or explicitly set to not use the global one and use a specific one (empty).

Something like:

[buildout]
eggs-directory = /home/USER/SOMEWHERE/eggs
download-cache = /home/USER/SOMEWHERE/downloads
extends-cache = /home/USER/SOMEWHERE/extends