[LON-CAPA-dev] Updating LON-CAPA on a development server

[Stuart Raeburn]

As of 3/10/2011, the additional line: "make aboutVERSION", advertised  
on 2/27/2011 as being needed when updating a development server, is no  
longer required, as that call has now been included within the  
operations which occur when using "make install".

So the update procedure is once again, simply:

cd /somewhere/loncapa
cvs update -d -A
cd loncom/build
make build
su
make install
/etc/init.d/loncontrol stop
/etc/init.d/loncontrol start
/etc/init.d/httpd restart



Stuart Raeburn


> A part of the changes made for LON-CAPA 2.10 was the inclusion of
> version checking to determine whether a course featured any specific
> version requirements arising from included response types and/or
> parameter settings.
>
> Roles in courses requiring a specific version (or later) of LON-CAPA
> can not be selected on a server hosting the user's session if that
> server's version is too old.
>
> The question then arises - how best to accommodate development servers?
> - for which traditionally the Version has remained as the default,
> i.e., set to: <!-- VERSION --> which is blank on a web page.
>
> Given that developers need to be able to test future code changes to
> version checking and or dependencies etc., continued use of <!--
> VERSION --> is not a good solution.
>
> Instead development servers will include a version number similar to
> 2.11.CVS_HEAD-2011022621 where the first part is the number of the next
> version (in the form N.M) and 2011022621 is the date/time of the last
> update to CVS_HEAD, in the form YYYYMMDDHH.
>
> The N.M and CVS_HEAD in the version number come from the values set in
> Makefile for VERSION and NEXTVERSION respectively.
>
> The procedure for updating a development server used to be:
>
> cd /somewhere/loncapa
> cvs update -d -A
> cd loncom/build
> make build
> su
> make install
>
> One additional line is now added so it becomes:
>
> cd /somewhere/loncapa
> cvs update -d -A
> cd loncom/build
> make build
> make aboutVERSION
> su
> make install
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn