[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: doc /build upgrade.html

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harris41		Tue Apr 23 08:55:28 2002 EDT

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-<h1>LON-CAPA Upgrade</h1>
-<h3>Current Upgrade Procedure</h3>
+<p>
+There are three steps for upgrading the software on your LON-CAPA server.
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#upgrade">
+Upgrading LON-CAPA files</a></li>
+<li><a href="#checkrpms">
+Checking your Linux RPMs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#testing">
+Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational</a></li>
+</ul>
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+<a name="upgrade" />
+<h3>Upgrading LON-CAPA files</h3>
 <p>
-Scott Harrison
+Download the most current
+<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/versions/current/loncapa.tar.gz">
+loncapa.tar.gz</a>.
 </p>
 <p>
-Last updated: 4/18/2001
+The <strong>UPDATE</strong> command will refresh your filesystem with all
+the latest LON-CAPA software.
 </p>
+<table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
+<tr><td><tt>./UPDATE</tt></td></tr>
+</table>
+<a name="checkrpms" />
+<h3>Checking your Linux RPMs</h3>
 <p>
-LON-CAPA system releases currently are not released under version
-numbers given the fast pace of system development.  To upgrade your
-system, you need to 
-<ol>
-<li>Make sure your software packages are up-to-date
-(based on install.lon-capa.org).</li>
-<ul>
-<li>As root, run the script <tt>/usr/sbin/loncapaverifypackages</tt>.  
-If packages are out-of-date, this script will output
-the out-of-date packages.  Packages that this script identifies as
-"should not be here", are packages that you may wish to remove to
-improve system security.  (These packages may represent important
-modifications of your institution, so do with care.  Removing
-packages is done with the command: <tt>rpm -e --nodeps PACKAGE_NAME</tt>.</li>
-</ul>
-<li>Upgrade old software packages.</li>
-<ul>
-<li>Upgrade software packages by either</li>
-<ul>
-<li>Running <tt>/usr/sbin/loncapaupgradepackages</tt>.</li>
-<li>Or, going to <a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/</a>,
-you can individually download each package from the world-wide web.  You 
-then need to enter the command:
-<tt>rpm -Uvh --force PACKAGE_RPM_FILE_NAME</tt> to upgrade your system
-for each package.</li>
-</ul>
-</ul>
-<li>Make the LON-CAPA base files up to date (based on
-install.lon-capa.org).</li>
-<ul>
-<li><B>[optional]</B> Run the script
-<tt>/usr/sbin/loncapaverifybasepackage</tt>.  Then view
-/home/httpd/html/dev/index.html for the verification report.
-If there are no real changes, then you do not need to make your files
-up-to-date.</li>
-<li>Download the most recent LON-CAPA rpm (<a href="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm">
-LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm</a>).  <tt>rpm -Uvh --force LON-CAPA-base-3.1-1.i386.rpm</tt> will upgrade your software package files.</li>
-</ul>
-<li>Restore configuration files.</li>
-<ul>
-<li>As you run /usr/sbin/loncapaupgradepackages or enter in
-<tt>rpm -Uvh --force</tt> commands, you may
-see messages appear on your screen such as:
-<br /><tt>warning: /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf saved as
-/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf.rpmsave</tt>
-<br />You can probably just type in commands like:
-<br /><tt>cp /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf.rpmsave
-/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf</tt>
-<br />to restore your configurations.  However, it is worthwhile to use the
-'diff' command to make sure that you are not accidentally losing important
-updates to the configuration files.  
-<li>Alternatively, you can run <tt>/usr/sbin/loncaparestoreconfigurations</tt>
-to "smartly" run through the system and restore LON-CAPA configuration
-values.</li>
-</ul>
-<li>Restart the LON-CAPA networking processes
-<ul>
-<li><tt>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol restart</tt></li>
-</ul>
-<li>Should you wish to automate the updating of your LON-CAPA base files, you can (at your own risk) run a script which will
-do all of this automatically.  You can run this script by entering the command:
-<TT>/usr/sbin/loncapaautoupgrade</TT></li>
-</ol>
+The <strong>CHECKRPMS</strong> command will check the RPMs on your machine
+against an FTP repository.
 </p>
-<h3>Future Upgrade Procedure (not yet implemented)</h3>
+<table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
+<tr><td><tt>./CHECKRPMS</tt></td></tr>
+</table>
+<a name="testing" />
+<h3>Testing to see if the LON-CAPA server is operational</h3>
 <p>
-In the future, LON-CAPA will be a versioned system that is released via CD.
-The upgrade procedure will be to insert the CD and follow instructions.  The CD
-upgrade procedure is already defined and somewhat implemented, but awaits
-completion.
+The <strong>TEST</strong> command will check the installation software,
+the perl libraries on your system, the MySQL database, and
+will also automatically test the real-time operation of the 
+LON-CAPA Apache web server.
 </p>
+<table bgcolor="#aaaaaa" border="1">
+<tr><td><tt>./TEST</tt></td></tr>
+</table>
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