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OpenACS is distributed as a collection of files, available as one big tarball, via CVS, and via automatic download from within the APM. Upgrades work by first changing the file system (via any of the previous methods), and then using the APM to scan the file system, find upgrade scripts, and execute them. This section describes how to upgrade the file system. Starting with OpenACS 5.0, this section can generally be skipped because the OpenACS APM can directly download new files from the openacs.org repository.
If you are using CVS, you will unpack the OpenACS 4.6 tarball into a working directory and then import that directory into cvs. If you have changed files in the core packages, cvs will attempt to merge your changes. You may have to manually merge some conflicts. When that's finished, you can update your normal development checkout directory and the new files will appear. If you aren't using CVS, you can unpack the tarball on top of your existing tree, but any customizations you've made to the kernel or core packages will be erased.
Upgrading files without CVS.�Unpack the tarball into a new directory and copy its contents on top of your working directory.
[root root]# su - service0 +Upgrading the OpenACS files OpenACS is distributed as a collection of files, available as one big tarball, via CVS, and via automatic download from within the APM. Upgrades work by first changing the file system (via any of the previous methods), and then using the APM to scan the file system, find upgrade scripts, and execute them. This section describes how to upgrade the file system. Starting with OpenACS 5.0, this section can generally be skipped because the OpenACS APM can directly download new files from the openacs.org repository.
Many OpenACS site developers operate their own CVS repository to keep track of changes from the release OpenACS code. This part describes how to import the latest OpenACS version into your own repository. If you are using CVS, you will unpack the OpenACS 4.6 tarball into a working directory and then import that directory into cvs. If you have changed files in the core packages, cvs will attempt to merge your changes. You may have to manually merge some conflicts. When that's finished, you can update your normal development checkout directory and the new files will appear. If you aren't using CVS, you can unpack the tarball on top of your existing tree, but any customizations you've made to the kernel or core packages will be erased.
Upgrading files for a site which is not in a CVS repository.�Unpack the tarball into a new directory and copy its contents on top of your working directory.
[root root]# su - service0 [service0 aolserver]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver [service0 web]$ tar xzf /tmp/openacs-4-6.tgz [service0 web]$ cp -r openacs-4-6/* openacs-4 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tar xzf /tmp/openacs-4-6.tgz cp -r openacs-4-6/* openacs-4 exit- Upgrading files with CVS + Upgrading files for a site which is in a CVS repository
Unpack the new files into a working directory.
[root root]# su - service0 [service0 aolserver]$ cd /tmp [service0 tmp]$ tar xzf openacs-4-6.tgz