You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@felix.apache.org by David Lindelöf <da...@adhoco.com> on 2007/04/17 16:46:38 UTC
Bundle repository
Dear all,
Is it possible for the Bundle Repository to manage several parallel
branches of the same bundle?
E.g., say I have deployed bundle Foo (1.2.3) on machine A and bundle Foo
(4.5.6) on machine B. Assume bundle versions are compatible only if
major and minor versions are the same.
I would like to manage a bundle repository such that when Foo (4.5.7) is
released, machine B gets updated but not machine A. Is this possible?
Best regards,
--
--------------------------------------------------
David Lindelöf
Product Developer
Adhoco AG
Technopark
Jagerstrasse 2
8406 Winterhur
tel +41-52-203.2903
mob +41-79-415.6641
fax +41-52-203.2904
e-mail david.lindelof@adhoco.com
url http://www.adhoco.com
weblog http://visnet.ch/~lindelof/smartbuildings/
--------------------------------------------------
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people
worry than work.
Re: Bundle repository
Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
David Lindelöf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Is it possible for the Bundle Repository to manage several parallel
> branches of the same bundle?
>
> E.g., say I have deployed bundle Foo (1.2.3) on machine A and bundle Foo
> (4.5.6) on machine B. Assume bundle versions are compatible only if
> major and minor versions are the same.
>
> I would like to manage a bundle repository such that when Foo (4.5.7) is
> released, machine B gets updated but not machine A. Is this possible?
>
This is out of OBR's scope. You need a management agent to handle such
issues. In the simplest scenario, the management agent can be you. On
machine B you can type "obr deploy Foo" and it will update it to the
latest version, but on machine A you don't tell it to do anything...
-> richard
> Best regards,
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> David Lindelöf
> Product Developer
> Adhoco AG
> Technopark
> Jagerstrasse 2
> 8406 Winterhur
> tel +41-52-203.2903
> mob +41-79-415.6641
> fax +41-52-203.2904
> e-mail david.lindelof@adhoco.com
> url http://www.adhoco.com
> weblog http://visnet.ch/~lindelof/smartbuildings/
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people
> worry than work.
>
Re: Bundle repository
Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
David Lindelöf wrote:
> Or what do you think of the following bundle reposiroty setup (ASCII art
> warning:
>
> [lindelof@tsf3-235 bundles]$ tree
> .
> |-- Bar
> |-- Foo
> | |-- 0.4
> | `-- 0.5
> | |-- Foo-0.5.5.jar
> | |-- Foo-0.5.6.jar
> | |-- Foo-0.5.7.jar
> | `-- Foo.jar -> Foo-0.5.7.jar
> |-- Baz
> `-- repository.xml
>
> Can I configure repository.xml with several entries with the same name
> "Foo", but pointing at different update locations (0.5/Foo.jar,
> 0.4/Foo.jar, ...)?
>
> Will this work if on machine A the bundle Foo is given a
> Bundle-UpdateLocation with "0.5/Foo.jar" and machine B with
> "0.4/Foo.jar"? If I update machine A, should this pick up Foo-0.5.7.jar,
> and similarly, if I update machine B, should this pick up the latest
> bundle from the 0.4 directory?
>
OBR1 used Bundle-UpdateLocation as its key, but OBR2 uses symbolic-name
+ bundle-version. In fact, for OBR2, you should not set the
Bundle-UpdateLocation at all.
For OBR2 you can have any number of different versions of a bundle with
a given symbolic name. If you deploy a specific symbolic name without
specifying a version, OBR2 will deploy the latest version. If you
specify the precise version, then OBR2 will deploy that precise version.
You might be able to mimic what you want to do by using the basic OBR2
features in conjunction with Bundle-UpdateLocation, but that seems messy.
It seems like you'd be better off creating some simple management agent
that you deploy on both machines that implements the update logic that
you require. For example, if you want machine A to always have the
latest version of 0.5.x and machine B to always have the latest version
of 0.4.x, just create a management agent to which you can specify such
rules and have it use OBR to find the latest version in each branch and
update to it.
-> richard
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:16 +0200, Richard S. Hall wrote:
>
>> David Lindelöf wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Is it possible for the Bundle Repository to manage several parallel
>>> branches of the same bundle?
>>>
>>> E.g., say I have deployed bundle Foo (1.2.3) on machine A and bundle Foo
>>> (4.5.6) on machine B. Assume bundle versions are compatible only if
>>> major and minor versions are the same.
>>>
>>> I would like to manage a bundle repository such that when Foo (4.5.7) is
>>> released, machine B gets updated but not machine A. Is this possible?
>>>
>>>
>> This is out of OBR's scope. You need a management agent to handle such
>> issues. In the simplest scenario, the management agent can be you. On
>> machine B you can type "obr deploy Foo" and it will update it to the
>> latest version, but on machine A you don't tell it to do anything...
>>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------
> David Lindelöf
> Product Developer
> Adhoco AG
> Technopark
> Jagerstrasse 2
> 8406 Winterhur
> tel +41-52-203.2903
> mob +41-79-415.6641
> fax +41-52-203.2904
> e-mail david.lindelof@adhoco.com
> url http://www.adhoco.com
> weblog http://visnet.ch/~lindelof/smartbuildings/
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
> -- Plato
>
Re: Bundle repository
Posted by David Lindelöf <da...@adhoco.com>.
Or what do you think of the following bundle reposiroty setup (ASCII art
warning:
[lindelof@tsf3-235 bundles]$ tree
.
|-- Bar
|-- Foo
| |-- 0.4
| `-- 0.5
| |-- Foo-0.5.5.jar
| |-- Foo-0.5.6.jar
| |-- Foo-0.5.7.jar
| `-- Foo.jar -> Foo-0.5.7.jar
|-- Baz
`-- repository.xml
Can I configure repository.xml with several entries with the same name
"Foo", but pointing at different update locations (0.5/Foo.jar,
0.4/Foo.jar, ...)?
Will this work if on machine A the bundle Foo is given a
Bundle-UpdateLocation with "0.5/Foo.jar" and machine B with
"0.4/Foo.jar"? If I update machine A, should this pick up Foo-0.5.7.jar,
and similarly, if I update machine B, should this pick up the latest
bundle from the 0.4 directory?
Best regards,
David
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:16 +0200, Richard S. Hall wrote:
> David Lindelöf wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Is it possible for the Bundle Repository to manage several parallel
> > branches of the same bundle?
> >
> > E.g., say I have deployed bundle Foo (1.2.3) on machine A and bundle Foo
> > (4.5.6) on machine B. Assume bundle versions are compatible only if
> > major and minor versions are the same.
> >
> > I would like to manage a bundle repository such that when Foo (4.5.7) is
> > released, machine B gets updated but not machine A. Is this possible?
> >
>
> This is out of OBR's scope. You need a management agent to handle such
> issues. In the simplest scenario, the management agent can be you. On
> machine B you can type "obr deploy Foo" and it will update it to the
> latest version, but on machine A you don't tell it to do anything...
--
--------------------------------------------------
David Lindelöf
Product Developer
Adhoco AG
Technopark
Jagerstrasse 2
8406 Winterhur
tel +41-52-203.2903
mob +41-79-415.6641
fax +41-52-203.2904
e-mail david.lindelof@adhoco.com
url http://www.adhoco.com
weblog http://visnet.ch/~lindelof/smartbuildings/
--------------------------------------------------
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
-- Plato