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Posted to dev@avalon.apache.org by Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com> on 2001/11/01 21:57:50 UTC
SAR extraction
In James (using a mid-September snapshot of Avalon), there's a somewhat
annoying problem that when you rebuild the .sar file, and run Avalon again,
Avalon will override anything in the apps directory with what's in the sar.
For instance, if I ran Avalon once, changed apps/james/conf/config.xml,
rebuilt the sar (because of a class change... I left config.xml alone), and
reran Avalon, my changes get lost.
Would it be possible to have the sar check timestamps on existing files and
only extract newer ones? Would this violate a design principle of the sar's
or otherwise be unfeasible to do?
Serge Knystautas
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Re: SAR extraction
Posted by Mircea Toma <mi...@home.com>.
> Is there a particular release I should grab? Can I grab just the avalon
> framework, or should I grab cornerstone, excalibur, etc..?
I'm afraid you have to build the Phoenix distribution from CVS!
mircea
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Re: SAR extraction
Posted by Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:25, Serge Knystautas wrote:
> Is there a particular release I should grab? Can I grab just the avalon
> framework, or should I grab cornerstone, excalibur, etc..? I haven't seen
> a changelog for Avalon, so I'm not sure why mid-September was used for the
> Avalon upgrade for James, and whether it's safe to upgrade again.
we are going to do a release soon so maybe then will be a good time to
upgrade.
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Re: SAR extraction
Posted by Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>.
Is there a particular release I should grab? Can I grab just the avalon
framework, or should I grab cornerstone, excalibur, etc..? I haven't seen a
changelog for Avalon, so I'm not sure why mid-September was used for the
Avalon upgrade for James, and whether it's safe to upgrade again.
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites
http://www.lokitech.com/
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From: "Mircea Toma" <mi...@home.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: SAR extraction
> > Would it be possible to have the sar check timestamps on existing files
> and
> > only extract newer ones?
>
> Sorry, actually this functionality is already there!
>
> Mircea
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Re: SAR extraction
Posted by Mircea Toma <mi...@home.com>.
> Would it be possible to have the sar check timestamps on existing files
and
> only extract newer ones?
Sorry, actually this functionality is already there!
Mircea
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Re: SAR extraction
Posted by Mircea Toma <mi...@home.com>.
> Would it be possible to have the sar check timestamps on existing files
and
> only extract newer ones?
I'm working on it!
Mircea
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Re: SAR extraction
Posted by Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:57, Serge Knystautas wrote:
> In James (using a mid-September snapshot of Avalon), there's a somewhat
> annoying problem that when you rebuild the .sar file, and run Avalon again,
> Avalon will override anything in the apps directory with what's in the sar.
> For instance, if I ran Avalon once, changed apps/james/conf/config.xml,
> rebuilt the sar (because of a class change... I left config.xml alone), and
> reran Avalon, my changes get lost.
yep.
> Would it be possible to have the sar check timestamps on existing files and
> only extract newer ones? Would this violate a design principle of the
> sar's or otherwise be unfeasible to do?
well - not sure. If we follow the .war standard then it probably would
because the .war is meant to be the complete deployment format. It becomes
even more difficult to decide when we have data files included inside the
.sar - do we extract them or not ?
I was thinking of something like the following in the future.
./phoenix-install.sh james ../some/path/james.sar (can be done while phoenix
is running or before it is run)
./phoenix-uninstall.sh james (must be done after phoenix has undeployed app
or phoenix is not running)
uninstall would delete all parts of app while if you installed over the top
of another app then you could be prompted which files you wanted to overide
and so on.
Thoughts?
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