Re: Upgrading CFE with CFE

[Paul Krizak]

Wow...never thought of that method...that's pretty clever!  I might 
consider doing something like this if we get into a bind trying to do an 
upgrade.

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Mark McCullough wrote:

> I make a special class in cfengine that detects if a new version is
> available.  If so, then it submits an at job that does the full upgrade.
> Since it is in an at job, killing all the cfengine daemons doesn't
> hurt the job doing the upgrade.  (I usually use package management
> of some form or another to simplify the actual upgrade.)
>
> So in my case the procedure would be:
> Submit at job that:
> * kills old cfengine programs
> * Installs new package
> * restarts cfexecd (which restarts the other daemons in my case).
>
> I actually used this to migrate from cfengine 1 to cfengine 2.
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