On 1/11/11 5:08 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 1/11/2011 11:41 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 11/01/2011 16:37, Christopher Schultz wrote: >>> Kevin, >>> >>> On 1/10/2011 5:21 PM, Kevin Murray wrote: >>>> I currently have a functioning Tomcat 5.5.25 server installed on 64-bit >>>> Linux and my goal is to advance to version Tomcat version 5.5.31 >>>> Is the a method akin to applying a patch to my existing Tomcat 5.5.25 >>>> install which will advance it to version 5.5.31 ? >>> >>> You could probably just unzip a new binary package on top of your old >>> one: anything new would be updated, but you might also inadvertently >>> overwrite customizations you've made to configuration files, etc. >>> >>> It's best to take Pid's advice and do a side-by-side. The advantage of >>> that is being able to roll-back with very little effort. > >> Look into using CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE. With that configured, it >> took me < 5 mins to upgrade the ASF test Jira instance from 6.0.29 to >> 7.0.6 and most of that was waiting for Jira to start (twice because I >> forgot to clear out the work directory the first time).
Also +1 to eating one's own dogfood. :) p --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
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