-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hassan,
On 5/19/2010 11:07 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Dale Ogilvie > <dale.ogil...@trimble.co.nz> wrote: > >> I'm hoping for something a bit more distro managed. Presumably your >> method means you have to maintain your own init.d scripts and use the >> "tar xzvf" method of installation, outside of your distro package >> management system. > > I don't recall ever having to change anything but the paths in the init.d > script, but yes, I do use `tar xvfz` to install. Which means I can install in > parallel to any other running instance(s) and test before cutting over. > > The inability to do that with any package managers I'm aware of, plus > the release gap, is why I don't bother with them. Untarring a file just > doesn't seem all that onerous to me. Could the Tomcat download site(s) contain a well-known URL, like: http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/apache-tomcat-current.tar.gz which redirects to the latest patch level for that version? That way, you could do something like this: $ wget 'http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/apache-tomcat-current.tar.gz' [see what the name of the file is: if it's different than the last one installed, send an email to the administrator announcing that there's a new version ready to be installed] I'd never have a script auto-update a production machine for me, of course: I'd want to read the release notes, make sure that my configuration doesn't need any adjustments, etc. Of course, we don't put anything into production that hasn't been extensively tested in the first place, so it's not exactly a surprise when a new version needs to be installed. >> On Windows, I at least have an installer that takes care of these tasks >> for me. > > On Windows, I -- oh wait, I don't use Windows :-) Yeah, same here: I can't imagine running a production system on Windows. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv1qskACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDPXwCeN2+MWnqjHEtkzz9/QkDrLKXJ KsIAn28b2Km3Er+Z9gQCsMTr4TR4pogk =k59c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
