[Zope] Upgrading from 2.3.3 ---> 2.4.2 on Linux

[Jens Vagelpohl]

you must upgrade *very often*. ;)

jens


On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 07:52 , Anthony Baxter wrote:

>
>>>> Jens Vagelpohl wrote
>> copy the Data.fs and products into the new 2.4.2 sandbox and restart...
>>
>> this is one of these situations where a SOFTWARE_HOME / INSTANCE_HOME ZEO
>> setup can make your life *so* much easier. for my sandboxes, switching to
>> a new zope release takes about 1 minute.
>
> Heck, whack it all behind loadbalancers, write a tool to manage it, and 
> you
> can do upgrades pretty much automatically, and without any visible outage.
>
> For me, upgrading the production system requires
> zopecontrol.py --upgradeserver=prod
>
> It whirrs off to CVS, checks out code, rebuilds it, all that stuff. Makes
> life sooo much more pleasant.
>
> Anthony
>
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> Anthony Baxter     <anthony@interlink.com.au>
> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
>