[LON-CAPA-admin] upgrade inquires

[lucasm at ohiou.edu]

Paul,

I just did the FC3 to FC4 reinstall on oucapa2, our library server.

Generally the system is pretty smart about looking before overwriting. The 
only thing I had problems with was that it overwrote the information on 
the ohiou domain in domain.tab. I'm not sure if I should have left that 
information empty when it came up in install.pl (or was that in ./UPDATE 
it happened?).

My biggest problem was just remembering all the little things with the 
reinstall - customized krb5.conf, little tweaks on syslog.conf, mail 
aliases for root, /etc.... :-)

Later,
Mark


On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Neubauer, Paul R. wrote:

> I'm about to do an upgrade too. We're currently running Fedora Core 2.
>
>> We gernerally suggest the process of doing a reinstall:
>>
>> http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-admin/2004-Novembe
>> r/000771.html
>
> This link says:
>
> }2. Do a clean install (not an upgrade) of the operating
> } system as per the instructions on http://install.loncapa.org/.
> } If /home is a separate partition you can leave it unformatted
> } to avoid step 3.
>
> }3. Restore your /home directory
>
> }4. Restore your /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf
>
> }5. Install LON-CAPA as per the instructions.
>
> I understand everything up to this point. Won't reinstalling LON-CAPA overwrite all the settings I had so carefully preserved? Most of LON-CAPA is in the /home directory but when I run install.pl that would replace a lot of that, wouldn't it? I'm doing the OS upgrade in the first place as part of upgrading LON-CAPA from 2.0.1 to 2.1 but I certainly want to test the installation after the OS-upgrade step. Does this make any sense? It looks like I'd have to reinstall (essentially from scratch) 2.0.1, which would mean that I don't really have the current installation to test. I really don't like the prospect of installing a fresh OS and then wiping out my current LON-CAPA installation for a fresh install of that.
>
> Am I missing something? I would guess so, but I'm not sure what. Step 5 (instructions at http://install.loncapa.org/FC4_install.html ) appears to instruct me to reinstall everything from scratch.
>
> Sorry if I'm being obtuse.
>
> Paul
> -- 
> Paul Neubauer
> University Computing Services
> Ball State University
> Muncie, IN 47306 USA
> (765)285-1936
> prn at bsu.edu
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