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| Subject: (6.4) What's the best way to upgrade to a new version of INN? |
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First, you should read the README and the Install.ms (yes, read them both... again). Things change in new versions. Second, the README explains how to do an upgrade. This document is redundant, but explains the procedure in more detail. STEP 1: Copy the values in the old config.data to your new config.data. You can do this automatically with this trick: % cd config
% make subst
% cp config.dist config.data
% ./subst -f {OLDFILE} config.data
where "{OLDFILE}" names your old config.data file.STEP 2: Edit the config.data to see if you want to change any of the new settings that didn't exist in the old version's config.data file. STEP 3: Compile everything: % cd $INN % make all(you can run "make world", which also runs "lint". If you don't know what "lint" is, just ignore anything it outputs. If it bombs, run "make all" instead.) STEP 4: When you feel you are ready to install the new files shut down the old daemon: % ctlinnd shutdown 'upgrade in progress' [ kill innwatch by hand if you need to ]STEP 4: Install the new files: % cd $INN % make updateSTEP 5: Now update all your $INN/site files to be the same as they were for your old software. "cd $INN/site ; make diff-installed" will tell you what's different between the files in /usr/lib/news and $INN/site. If you only make changes in the $INN/site directory and use "make install" to copy them into place you'll save your self a lot of trouble. Read $INN/site/Makefile for more interesting things that "make" can do. STEP 6: When you feel you are ready to install the new $INN/site files: # cd $INN/site # make installSTEP 7: Re-start the system: % sh /usr/lib/news/etc/rc.newsSTEP 8: If everything was done right you should be up and running. Parts 3 and 4 of the FAQ gives tips on testing your configuration. If you're upgrading from 1.4, you'll need to change the call to rc.news in your rc.local, /etc/init.d/INN or equivalent to "su news -c /path/to/rc.news"since rc.news now gets run as news instead of root. DON'T FORGET to apply the appropriate security patches (even to 1.5.1!!)!!. ------------------------------ [Last Changed: $Date: 1997/07/01 01:25:41 $ $Revision: 2.21 $] [Copyright: 1997 Heiko Rupp, portions by Tom Limoncelli, Rich Salz, et al.] |
