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Re: Upgrading CFE with CFE


From: Adams, Russell L.
Subject: Re: Upgrading CFE with CFE
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:55:28 -0500
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I thought the most people used statically linked binaries of all the
cfengine executables, and put them in /var/cfengine/bin and copied
them down from a central location with their configuration.

You then may need to trigger a restart of cfexecd.

Russell

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:19:07AM -0500, Paul Krizak wrote:
> Wow...never thought of that method...that's pretty clever!  I might 
> consider doing something like this if we get into a bind trying to do an 
> upgrade.
> 
> Paul Krizak                         5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
> Advanced Micro Devices              Austin, Tx  78741
> CAD Systems Engineering             Phone: (512) 602-8775
> Paul.Krizak@amd.com
> 
> 
> Mark McCullough wrote:
> 
> >I make a special class in cfengine that detects if a new version is
> >available.  If so, then it submits an at job that does the full upgrade.
> >Since it is in an at job, killing all the cfengine daemons doesn't
> >hurt the job doing the upgrade.  (I usually use package management
> >of some form or another to simplify the actual upgrade.)
> >
> >So in my case the procedure would be:
> >Submit at job that:
> >* kills old cfengine programs
> >* Installs new package
> >* restarts cfexecd (which restarts the other daemons in my case).
> >
> >I actually used this to migrate from cfengine 1 to cfengine 2.
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