Re: Upgrading CFE with CFE

[Brian E. Seppanen]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with upgrading large installations of
> CFE with CFE?  Was there any particular order in which you pushed the
> three components?   Are there any gotchas if you are using cfexecd to
> launch cfengine instead of cron?

My solution was to write a shell script to compile on each host but that 
requires a compiler on each host.  This makes a lot of assumptions as to 
what you have installed as well, but that's what cfengine is for right... 
Perhaps I'm a simpleton, but I didn't really notice any problems doing 
this.  the nice bit about this is that I use a define to trigger this for 
my hosts.


#!/bin/bash
set -x

cd /usr/src
/bin/tar zxvf /usr/src/cfengine-snap.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/GNU-cfengine
./configure
make -j2
make install




Brian Seppanen
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