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1: <html> 2: <head> 3: <title>LON-CAPA CVS Upgrade</title> 4: </head> 5: <body> 6: <h1>LON-CAPA CVS Upgrade</h1> 7: <h3>Current CVS Upgrade Procedure</h3> 8: <p> 9: Scott Harrison 10: </p> 11: <p> 12: Last updated: 4/18/2001 13: </p> 14: <ul> 15: <li><a href="#fileupgrade">CVS Upgrade</a></li> 16: <li><a href="#rpm">RPM Upgrade</a></li> 17: <li><a href="#status">Viewing the status of your machine</a></li> 18: <li><a href="#setting">Setting yourself up for CVS</a></li> 19: </ul> 20: <a name="fileupgrade"> 21: <h3>CVS Upgrade</h3> 22: <p> 23: If you have not yet set yourself up for LON-CAPA CVS, please see the 24: section <a href="#setting">"Setting yourself up for LON-CAPA CVS"</a>. 25: </p> 26: <p> 27: Before you do a file upgrade, you can always enter a "make statuspost" 28: command to see what will be changing on your system. See the section 29: <a href="#status">Viewing the status of your machine</a>. 30: </p> 31: <p> 32: If you have not yet set yourself up for LON-CAPA CVS, please see the 33: section <a href="#setting">"Setting yourself up for LON-CAPA CVS"</a>. 34: </p> 35: <p> 36: Assuming that you have set yourself up for LON-CAPA CVS, periodically 37: upgrading your system is a simple process. 38: </p> 39: <table border> 40: <tr><td><b>Steps</b></td><td><b>Commands</b></td></tr> 41: <tr><td>Make sure you are logged in for CVS</td> 42: <td>export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs 43: <br />cvs login</td></tr> 44: <tr><td>Go to your repository directory</td><td>cd loncapa</td></tr> 45: <tr><td>Update your CVS sources</td><td>cvs update -d</td></tr> 46: <tr><td>Go to the build directory</td><td>cd loncom/build</td></tr> 47: <tr><td>Become 'root'</td><td>su</td></tr> 48: <tr><td>Install/update static files</td><td>make install</td></tr> 49: <tr><td>Install/update dynamically configurable files<br /> 50: <i>this preserves the current settings of your machine, don't worry :)</i> 51: </td> 52: <td>make configinstall</td></tr> 53: <tr><td>Restart your web server<br />Due to an apache bug, you should 54: enter this command twice. Restarting the web server will 55: <ul> 56: <li>introduce changes made to /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/*.pm files;</li> 57: <li>update user and group permissions if /etc/passwd or /etc/group change.</li> 58: </ul> 59: </td> 60: <td>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart 61: <br />/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart</td></tr> 62: <tr><td>Restart the lonc/lond processes<br />Be patient (this takes several minutes).</td> 63: <td>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart</td></tr> 64: <tr><td colspan=2>After CVS logging in, you can always cut and paste this line 65: below assuming you do everything as root :)<br /> 66: <tt>cd loncapa; cvs update -d; cd loncom/build; make install; make configinstall; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart</tt></td></tr> 67: </table> 68: <p> 69: It may be also advisable to test your system after an upgrade if there are 70: critical tasks it is being used for. 71: </p> 72: <a name="rpm"> 73: <h3>RPM Upgrade</h3> 74: <p> 75: There are three things involved in an RPM upgrade: 76: </p> 77: <ul> 78: <li> 79: <li> 80: <li> 81: </ul> 82: <a name="status"> 83: <h3>Viewing the status of your machine</h3> 84: <p> 85: </p> 86: <a name="setting"> 87: <h3>Setting yourself up for CVS</h3> 88: <p> 89: </p> 90: 91: </body> 92: </html>