This is getting so frustrating! It is a real PITA to update CiviCRM every single time there is an update.
We use several extensions. According to the documentation, I have to disable each extension (which you can't do in bulk, you have to disable them one at a time), back up the database, make a copy of the site, delete all CiviCRM files, download the update, unpack it twice (.gz and then .tar), upload it to the hosting provider, run the update script, figure out why the system still thinks it it's in update mode (causing many things to not work!), re-enable each extension individually, then try to find out why this stupid unserialize error at line 153 keeps popping up (I have yet to figure out what table is causing this, but I have determined it does have something to do with the database, I even downloaded an extension that is supposed to tell me, but I can't seem to get it to work).
We are on a shared hosting plan (non-profit so cheap cheap cheap), so sometimes the admin side is painfully slow and it is not unusual for it take 4 hours or more to do a simple update that should be able to happen like updating any other module through the Drupal panel and take about 15-20 minutes.
Is it every going to happen this way, or will I always have to do this manually?
Thanks.