Hi Jan!

Thanks a lot for those instructions. I just upgraded server and client
without any problems at all. And your hint at /dev/cfs0 was really
helpful. :-)

Ciao
Florian

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:22:42 -0500, Jan Harkes said:

>On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:18:34PM +0100, Florian Schaefer wrote:
> > I'd like to upgrade my coda-debug-server-5.3.15-1 and
> > coda-debug-client-5.3.15-1 to the current version.
> > But as I never did this with a running system, I'd like to know what to
> > do.
> > 
> > Is "rpm -U" with all the packages (coda, rpc2, lwp) enough? Or do I need
> > to to something special with my configuration und stored data?
> 
> rpm -U typically should work fine. RVM and configuration file on the
> server are not touched and are typically compatible across versions.
> 2 caveat's you can't upgrade a running client, first shut it down and
> make sure that /coda is not mounted. And Coda client more often require
> reinitialization across upgrades due to RVM changes. Make sure that the
> CML is written back to the server before upgrading the client.
> 
> Reinit for a client is by either starting 'venus -init' or touching
> /usr/coda/venus.cache/INIT. Removing all container files in venus.cache
> will sometimes be useful too, because a reinitialized venus doesn't know
> about them anymore and will only slowly 'recycle' the space until it has
> used all container files once before it knows the actual venus.cache size.
> 
> When trying to upgrade rpm might be complaining about library
> versions because our rpm's were compiled on an older redhat system.
> There are 2 rpms in the RedHat distribution which are not installed by
> default, compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.i386.rpm and compat-libstdc++-...,
> that contain the old library versions.
> 
> Also coda-debug-client-5.3.17 has a silly bug in the postinstall script
> and it fails to recreate /dev/cfs0 after the upgrade. Just run
> "mknod /dev/cfs0 c 67 0" after installing the coda-client rpm and it
> should be fine.
> 
> I believe that is about it.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 

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