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+
build:
perl parse.pl ../../doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html build > Makefile.build
make -f Makefile.build all
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+
loncom/build/parse.pl reads in all the build information out
@@ -152,10 +153,12 @@ alwaysrun:
All that you have to do to alter the behavior of the installation is edit a single file (doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html). Adding, removing, and altering files requires proper attention to the syntax of file format of course. +
File FormatThe preceding "make build" documentation @@ -248,12 +251,171 @@ combination has been working very effici
+The current list of configurable files for the LON-CAPA system is +/etc/httpd/access.conf, /etc/smb.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf, +/etc/atalk/config, /etc/ntp/step-tickers, +/home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/copyright.tab, +/home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/un_keyword.tab, +/home/httpd/hosts.tab, and +/home/httpd/spare.tab. +
++All of these configurable files contain machine-specific information. +For instance, the LON-CAPA system relies on unique host IDs such +as msua3, s1, s2, msul1, and 103a1 (specified as a "PerlSetVar lonHostID" +field within /etc/httpd/access.conf). +Non-configurable files simply do NOT have machine-specific information. +The impact on updating software +
+What this means in terms of software updating is that +
+cd loncom/build +make install ++ +General description of what happens +
+This is the actual make target code.
+
+
+
+install: build
+ perl parse.pl ../../doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html install > Makefil
+e.install
+ make -f Makefile.install SOURCE="../.." TARGET="" directories
+ make -f Makefile.install SOURCE="../.." TARGET="" files
+ make -f Makefile.install SOURCE="../.." TARGET="" links
+
+
+
+For safety reasons (so as to not mess up a machine's configuration),
+configuration files are NOT installed during this step. This means
+that files such as /etc/httpd/access.conf, /etc/smb.conf, /etc/atalk/config,
+/home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/copyright.tab, and
+/home/httpd/spare.tab are not overwritten, but remain as old, non-updated
+copies. (To automatically update these files and save/restore
+their encoded machine configuration, you must run "make configinstall").
+
+cd loncom/build +make configinstall ++ +General description of what happens +
+This is the actual make target code.
+
+
+
+configinstall:
+ # there is a dependency on having directories in place, but oh well...
+ perl parse.pl ../../doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html configinstall > Makefile.configinstall
+ make -f Makefile.configinstall SOURCE="../.." TARGET="" configfiles
+ perl loncaparestoreconfigurations lasttimestamp
+ make -f Makefile.configinstall TARGET="" configpermissions
+
+
+
+Configuration files are installed during this step. This means
+that files such as /etc/httpd/access.conf, /etc/smb.conf, /etc/atalk/config,
+/home/httpd/html/res/adm/includes/copyright.tab, and
+/home/httpd/spare.tab are overwritten. Before being overwritten,
+a backup copy is made though. Information is read out of these
+backup copies and restored to the new files by the
+loncaparestoreconfigurations script. To ensure that
+new file permissions and ownerships are installed, a final set of
+chown and chmod commands are called for each of
+the configuration files.
+
+If you are truly paranoid, you can just make the +Makefile.configinstall file and then save, copy, +and restore all the configuration values yourself. +loncaparestoreconfigurations is pretty smart though, has yet to +fail, and besides, a backup copy is always made (time-stamped so that backup +copies are not overwritten). +
+cd loncom/build +rm -Rf BinaryRootL (or alternatively, "make clean") +make RPM +(to subsequently install, you can type commands like +"rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm") ++ + +WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +
+Never never never never never manually install the +LON-CAPA-setup-3.1-1.i386.rpm. This RPM is meant to only be +installed by the CD installation process (it wipes out +the existing /etc/passwd file). +
+Configuration files ++Configuration files are automatically saved with the file suffix +".rpmsave". So /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf is saved as +/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf.rpmsave. You can restore +the machine-specific configuration information by running +the /usr/sbin/loncaparestoreconfigurations. However, +a warning is important here. If you install an RPM twice +without restoring your configuration, you will overwrite the +".rpmsave" files. +
+General description of what happens +
+This is the actual make target code.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+A BinaryRoot directory is generated that reflects the locations,
+ownerships, permissions, and contents for all the CVS source
+files, compiled binaries, directories, and links as they should eventually
+occur on the '/' filesystem location.
+
+loncom/build/make_rpm.pl is robust (tested over the +span of months) and, unlike other automated RPM-builders, cleanly +builds new RPMs without any after-effect of temporary files left +on the system. (On the negative side, there are a number of +LON-CAPA specific customizations inside make_rpm.pl which, for +the sake of reusability, should eventually be removed). Two new RPMs +are generated: LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386 and LON-CAPA-setup-3.1-1.i386.rpm +(again, never manually install LON-CAPA-setup-3.1-1.i386.rpm). +