Opened 17 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#64 closed defect (wontfix)
Autoinstallers should use svn co instead of untar
Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | autoinstallers | Keywords: | |
Cc: |
Description
Most of our software supports upgrading by switching to a newer tag, updating, and possibly running an upgrade databases script. If we install a SVN (or whatever VCS) working copy rather than extracting a tarball, users can upgrade their own installs easily. Our auto-upgrade process should also become easier.
For SVN, we can merely generate a tarball with the .svn directories and keep our existing auto-install (and to some extent, auto-upgrade) infrastructure. I suspect this will work with all other VCSes.
There are also packages such as Django that very much recommend installing HEAD rather than a tarballed release, so having an infrastructure that will deal with VCSes will make it easier to support such packages.
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by ezyang
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
The decision was to use a Git based system, named Wizard.