Re: {bb} Upgrading from bb1.9c to bb1.9h

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 00:26, Isabel Robin wrote:
>  Help!!!!!
>   
>  I am looking for a clean way to upgrade from bb1.9c to bb1.9h.
>  I  know that in version 1.9d (and of course 1.9h) the server and
> client  configuration was separated.  At this point I am only
> planning to  upgrade the server and i will still have bb1.9d
> clients running.   How will having the bbdef.sh and bbdef-server.sh,
> specially the  conditional statement that states if you are the
> server run  bbdef-server.sh and if you are a client run
> bbdef-client.sh affect the  tests on my bb1.9c clients?  Please
> send your comments.  
>   
>   Thank you!!

What you propose, in respect of your remote BB clients, is the
recommended procedure. Update the server first and do the clients
afterwards. The remote clients shouldn't have any problem with
that as they know nothing about the internal structure of the
server.

It sounds like you are also planning to keep the version "c"
software on your server (to run it as a client) and install
"h" over the top of it. Don't. Down that road, madness lies :)

You could retain the "c" software and install "h" in a different
directory. You would then need to set BBSERVER; BBDISPLAY; BBPAGER
and BBNET in bbinc.sh (in the "c" version) to FALSE. You would
also need to update BBHOME if you had to move the directory for
"c" out of the way before installing "h".

But, this is going to require more effort and is more likely
to cause problems than simply installing the version "h" client
on your server at the same time. I'd heartily recommend that
you stop your current server software and move that directory
out of the way (retaining it for reference). Then install the
new server software in a new directory and get it running.
Then install the new client software in a new directory and
start that.

Cheers, Phil.



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