[Buildbot-devel] Updating Buildbot

[Bob Hood]

Ah, 'easy_install' looks promising.  I'll research that.

Thanks, Mike.  :)



Mike Winter (miwinter) wrote:
> I would consider backing up all of .../lib/python-2.X/site-packages/*
> considering that it depends on twistd, and zope which I assume for now
> we dont have to edit.
>  
> After that I would do an easy-install of buildbot with an upgrade
> version parameter -q
>  
> easy_install -Z -q buildbot==0.7.10
> Since you are working in a production env. I would dry-run in a test
> or virtualenv first. Including trying production config with a couple
> of test-slaves....
>  
> all usual disclaimers apply
>  
> #!/bin/bash
> # Install virtualenv
>  
> prefix=$(/bin/pwd)
> pythonVersion=2.3
> local_lib_dir=lib/python$pythonVersion/site-packages
>  
> mkdir -p $local_lib_dir
> PYTHONPATH=$local_lib_dir easy_install-$pythonVersion -q --prefix
> $prefix virtualenv
> # assume twistd not changing
> bin/virtualenv --no-site-packages test_venv
> source test_venv/bin/activate
> easy_install -Z -q buildbot==0.7.9
> #END SCRIPT
>  
> > source test_venv/activate
> > which python
> ....../test_venv/bin/python
>  
> > easy_install -Z -q buildbot==0.7.10
>  
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Bob Hood [mailto:bhood2 at comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:34 PM
> To: Buildbot Mailing List
> Subject: [Buildbot-devel] Updating Buildbot
>
> I apologize in advance for this question.  I'm sure it's been asked
> over and over, but I cannot find an FAQ, and a search of the
> documentation, Goolge, and the archives for this mailing list failed
> to produce the specific results I needed (probably couldn't get the
> keywords right).
>
> I have a production system running Buildbot 0.7.9 and I want to update
> it in-place.  I cannot seem to find any tutorial or documentation
> about how to upgrade Buildbot.  The documentation talks about
> upgrading the config files, but not really how to update the actual
> Buildbot installation to a new version.  Can somebody point me to the
> location that illustrates how this is done?  (It would be nice to be
> able to backup the 0.7.9 installation as well in case things go
> horribly wrong.)
>
> Many thanks.

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