Sorry folks, it’s me. These days when I install Wordpress I do a checkout from the main source repository, which has the nice property that I need only run a single command to update the exact files which change from version to version without having to do anything chancy.
At least, that’s the theory. It’s not working at the moment, so you may see the site appear and disappear a bit today.
Update: No dice. Looks like I’d have to reinstall from scratch to get it to work, so I’m going to put that off for the moment.