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3: <title>LON-CAPA CVS Upgrade</title>
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6: <h1>LON-CAPA CVS Upgrade</h1>
7: <h3>Current CVS Upgrade Procedure</h3>
8: <p>
9: Scott Harrison, last updated 05/19/2001
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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: Assuming that you have set yourself up for LON-CAPA CVS, periodically
33: upgrading your system is a simple process.
34: </p>
35: <table border>
36: <tr><td><b>Steps</b></td><td><b>Commands</b></td></tr>
37: <tr><td>Make sure you are logged in for CVS</td>
38: <td>export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs
39: <br />cvs login</td></tr>
40: <tr><td>Go to your repository directory</td><td>cd loncapa</td></tr>
41: <tr><td>Update your CVS sources</td><td>cvs update -d -r STABLE</td></tr>
42: <tr><td>Go to the build directory</td><td>cd loncom/build</td></tr>
43: <tr><td>Become 'root'</td><td>su</td></tr>
44: <tr><td>Install/update static files</td><td>make install</td></tr>
45: <tr><td>Install/update dynamically configurable files<br />
46: <i>this preserves the current settings of your machine, don't worry :)</i>
47: </td>
48: <td>make configinstall</td></tr>
49: <tr><td>Restart your web server<br />Due to an apache bug, you should
50: enter this command twice. Restarting the web server will
51: <ul>
52: <li>introduce changes made to /home/httpd/lib/perl/Apache/*.pm files;</li>
53: <li>update user and group permissions if /etc/passwd or /etc/group change.</li>
54: </ul>
55: </td>
56: <td>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
57: <br />/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart</td></tr>
58: <tr><td>Restart the lonc/lond processes<br />Be patient (this takes several minutes).</td>
59: <td>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart</td></tr>
60: <tr><td colspan=2>After CVS logging in, you can always cut and paste this line
61: below assuming you do everything as root :)<br />
62: <tt>cd loncapa; cvs update -d -r STABLE; cd loncom/build; make install; make
63: configinstall; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
64: restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart
65: </tt></td></tr>
66: </table>
67: <p>
68: It may be also advisable to test your system after an upgrade if there are
69: critical tasks it is being used for.
70: </p>
71: <p>
72: The specification file which defines the CVS:source-to-system information is
73: CVS:doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html. Changes to this file directly
74: translate into changes in the installation.
75: </p>
76: <a name="rpm">
77: <h3>RPM Upgrade</h3>
78: <p>
79: BE CAREFUL. READ THIS STUFF.
80: </p>
81: <p>WARNINGS:
82: <ul>
83: <li>Do not ever install or upgrade an LON-CAPA-base RPM. You will
84: lose important configuration information on your machine. The CVS upgrade
85: is much safer and more effective in bringing you up to date.</li>
86: <li>Do not ever install or upgrade a LON-CAPA-setup RPM. You will lose
87: information from your /etc/group, /etc/passwd, and other important files.</li>
88: <li>Be careful about installing a LON-CAPA-mysql RPM. You need to run
89: /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl after this to re-seed your metadata database.
90: <li>Don't upgrade/install/delete your kernel RPM unless you have done
91: it before.
92: </li>
93: </ul>
94: <p>
95: There are four things involved in an RPM upgrade:
96: </p>
97: <ol>
98: <li>Gaining information about the RPMs on your system.</li>
99: <li>Upgrade existing RPMS from a trusted source</li>
100: <li>Remove RPMs which do not belong</li>
101: <li>Add new RPMs</li>
102: </ol>
103: <p>
104: <b>Gaining information about the RPMs on your system:</b>
105: "make rpmstatuspost"
106: (see <a href="#status">Viewing the status of your machine</a>)
107: will tell you about RPMs which do not belong (are "external"
108: to LON-CAPA). It will also tell you if you have "out-of-date"
109: RPMs which should maybe be upgraded. Important specification
110: files for RPM installation are CVS:doc/otherfiles/rpm_list.txt
111: and CVS:doc/otherfiles/cd_rpms.txt.
112: </p>
113: <p>
114: <b>Upgrade existing RPMS from a trusted source:</b>
115: RPMs are currently available at
116: <blockquote>
117: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS
118: </blockquote>
119: For example, to upgrade your LON-CAPA-systemperl RPM, you
120: would enter commands like
121: <blockquote>
122: wget http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/RedHat/RPMS/LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.1-1.i386.rpm<br />
123: (then as root) rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-systemperl-3.1-1.i386.rpm
124: </blockquote>
125: </p>
126: <p>
127: <b>Remove RPMs which do not belong:</b>
128: If an RPM should NOT be on your system (like apmd), then you want
129: to remove this RPM. Since RedHat is a little erroneous when
130: it comes to dependencies, you may wish to use the --nodeps flag.
131: <blockquote>
132: rpm -e --nodeps apmd-3.0final-2.i386.rpm
133: </blockquote>
134: </p>
135: <p>
136: <b>Add new RPMs:</b>
137: Use the same command as for upgrading.
138: <blockquote>
139: (as root) rpm -Uvh --force icewm-1.0.5-gnome.i386.rpm
140: </blockquote>
141: We often use icewm as our development machine window manager given the
142: RedHat 6.2 bugs involving enlightenment and gnome.
143: </p>
144: <a name="status">
145: <h3>Viewing the status of your machine</h3>
146: <p>
147: </p>
148: <table border>
149: <tr><td><b>Steps</b></td><td><b>Commands</b></td></tr>
150: <tr><td>Make sure you are logged in for CVS</td>
151: <td>export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs
152: <br />cvs login</td></tr>
153: <tr><td>Go to your repository directory</td><td>cd loncapa</td></tr>
154: <tr><td>Update your CVS sources</td><td>cvs update -d -r STABLE</td></tr>
155: <tr><td>Go to the build directory</td><td>cd loncom/build</td></tr>
156: <tr><td>Become 'root'</td><td>su</td></tr>
157: <tr><td>View the CVS source->install status of your machine</td><td>make statuspost
158: <br /> then visit http://MACHINENAME/lon-status/filestatus.html</td></tr>
159: </td></tr>
160: <tr><td>View the RPM status of your machine
161: </td>
162: <td>make rpmstatuspost<br />
163: then visit http://MACHINENAME/lon-status/rpmstatus.html</td>
164: </table>
165: <a name="setting">
166: <h3>Setting yourself up for CVS</h3>
167: <p>
168: These instructions assume bash (as opposed to tcsh).
169: </p>
170: <p>
171: You will also need an account on zaphod.lite.msu.edu.
172: Please e-mail lon-capa@hobbes.lite.msu.edu and request that
173: an account be created.
174: </p>
175: <p>
176: The straightforward way to enable CVS is to manually configure your
177: environment and log in:
178: <blockquote>
179: export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs
180: <br />
181: cvs login
182: </blockquote>
183: </p>
184: <p>
185: You can also modify your shell environment (.bash_profile and .bash_logout).
186: <blockquote>
187: The commands:<br />
188: <b>export CVSROOT=:pserver:USERNAME@zaphod.lite.msu.edu:/home/cvs</b>
189: <br />
190: <b>cvs login</b>
191: <br />
192: can be appended to ~/.bash_profile.
193: <br />
194: "<b>cvs logout</b>" can be appended to ~/.bash_logout
195: </blockquote>
196: </p>
197: <p>
198: To check out LON-CAPA, go to any writeable directory and type:
199: <blockquote>cvs co loncapa</blockquote>
200: </p>
201: <p>
202: This will create a directory tree similar to:
203: <pre>
204: loncapa_________CAPA
205: |
206: |_____loncom
207: |
208: |_____doc
209: |
210: |_____rat
211: |
212: \_____packaging
213: </pre>
214: </p>
215: <p>
216: Useful commands are:
217: </p>
218: <table border=1>
219: <tr><td>Command</td></td><td>Description</td></tr>
220: <tr><td>info cvs</td></td><td>doc's</td></tr>
221: <tr><td>cvs log FILENAME</td></td><td>see what's happened with a file</td></tr>
222: <tr><td>cvs update -d -r STABLE</td></td><td>update your CVS tree from the
223: current directory location</td></tr>
224: </table>
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