Jim Fulton wrote:

Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:

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How do you upgrade zope without affecting your current database? Just copy it into the new var-directory?

That's what we do. Someday, there should be some software sitting around to make this cleaner.

What I do is keep the data in a directory outside the distribution, rather than using the supplied directory. That way, I can pkg_delete the old version and pkg_add the new one, and I don't need to do anything special. This also makes it easy to have multiple instances of zope. The zope-install script from the NetBSD zope pkg may be useful. It creates instances, the pcgi resource file, and generates sample Apache rewrite rules: #!/usr/pkg/bin/python # # $NetBSD: zope-install.py,v 1.1.1.1 1998/12/12 17:28:23 tsarna Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 1998 Endicor Technologies, Inc. # All rights reserved. Written by Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com> # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. # 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products # derived from this software without specific prior written permission # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES # OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. # IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, # INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT # NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, # DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY # THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT # (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF # THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # # This will have to do for now... import sys, os, re, getopt, string prefix = "/usr/pkg" cgidir = prefix + "/libexec/cgi-bin" apconf = prefix + "/etc/httpd/httpd.conf" zopedir = prefix + "/zope" zopevar = zopedir + "/var" zopedata = "/var/zope" def usage(): print 'usage: zope-install [-n] [-p perms] [-u user] [-g group] [-d dir] [-c cgidir] instancename' print print '\t-n\tshow what would be done, but don\'t actually do it' print '\t-p\tmanager permissions, in the form' print '\t\tusername:plaintextpassword[:domain-restrinction]' print '\t\teg: "root:mypass" or "root:mypass:*.mydomain.com' print '\t-u\tusername to run as, default to Apache\'s user' print '\t-g\tgroupname to run as, default to Apache\'s group' print '\t-d\tdirectory for instance, defaults to %s/instancename' % zopedata print '\t-d\tdirectory for CGIs, defaults to %s' % cgidir sys.exit(1) def exists(f): e = 1 try: os.stat(f) except: e = 0 return e def resourcefile(v): resource = '''#!%(zopedir)s/pcgi/pcgi-wrapper PCGI_NAME=Main PCGI_MODULE_PATH=%(zopedir)s/lib/python/Main.py PCGI_PUBLISHER=%(zopedir)s/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py PCGI_EXE=%(python)s PCGI_SOCKET_FILE=%(instvar)s/pcgi.soc PCGI_PID_FILE=%(instvar)s/pcgi.pid PCGI_ERROR_LOG=%(instvar)s/pcgi.log PCGI_DISPLAY_ERRORS=1 BOBO_REALM=%(instance)s BOBO_DEBUG_MODE=1 INSTANCE_HOME=%(dirname)s ''' % v return resource def GetApachePerms(): user = group = "?ERROR?" rx = re.compile("^(User|Group)\\s([^\\s]+)") f = open(apconf, "r") for l in f.readlines(): m = rx.match(l) if m: if m.group(1) == "User": user = m.group(2) if m.group(1) == "Group": group = m.group(2) return user, group def runsys(pretend, cmd): if pretend: print cmd else: r = os.system(cmd) if r: sys.exit(r) def createfile(pretend, fname, contents): if pretend: print "cat >%(fname)s <__EOF__\n%(contents)s__EOF__" % vars() else: f = open(fname, "w") f.write(contents) f.close() if __name__ == "__main__": optlist, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'np:u:g:d:') if len(args) != 1: usage() instance = args[0] user, group = GetApachePerms() pretend = 0 seenperms = 0 perms = "root:password" dirname = None python = sys.executable for (oname, oarg) in optlist: if oname == '-n': pretend = 1 elif oname == '-p': perms = oarg seenperms = 1 elif oname == '-u': user = oarg elif oname == '-g': group = oarg elif oname == '-d': dirname = oarg elif oname == '-c': cgidir = oarg if not dirname: dirname = zopedata + '/' + instance instvar = dirname + '/var' runsys(pretend, "mkdir -p " + instvar) if not exists(instvar + "/Data.bbb"): runsys(pretend, "cp %(zopevar)s/Data.bbb.in %(instvar)s" % vars()) runsys(pretend, "chown -R %(user)s.%(group)s %(dirname)s" % vars()) runsys(pretend, "chmod -R u+rwX,g+rX,g-w,o-rwx %(dirname)s" % vars()) fname = dirname + "/access" if not exists(fname): if not seenperms: sys.stderr.write("%s: warning: perms not set, dedaulting to %s\n" % (sys.argv[0], perms)) createfile(pretend, fname, perms + '\n') runsys(pretend, "chmod 600 %(fname)s; chown %(user)s.%(group)s %(fname)s" % vars()) fname = cgidir + '/' + instance + ".cgi" createfile(pretend, fname, resourcefile(vars())) runsys(pretend, "chmod 755 %(fname)s; chown %(user)s.%(group)s %(fname)s" % vars()) sys.stderr.write(""" now you will need to add lines similar to these to your Apache srm.conf file to enable access to your instance via http://yourwebserver/instance/ RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %%{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^/%(instance)s/(.*) %(cgidir)s/%(instance)s.cgi/$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] """ % vars())