On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Pongrácz István <[email protected]
> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I am wondering, what about an automated upgrade process?
>
Part of the point of this is to make automated upgrades possible.
> For example the workflow could be this:
>
> - The administrator simply overwrites all existing files, except
> ledgersmb.conf, of course, from the new release
> - Of course, he/she takes care about the owner/permission
>
>
Permissions shouldn't necessarily change for production files.
>
> - In a fresh login the upgrade detects that, a rebuild necessary and
> it do automatically and send a notification about the upgrade.
>
> That violates basic db permissions as we currently have them set up. So
that part itself is not possible.
>
>
> This is a draft idea, really need polish: what about already logged
> users/transactions, how to detect in runtime the changed files and version
> changes etc.
>
Basically what you need is some sort of atomic file upgrade, and some sort
of atomic db upgrade. DB transactions can take care of the db side.
> But that would be reaaaallllllyyyyyy comfortable :)
>
For a single self-hosted solution where you don't have 24/7 uptime, I don't
know really how you would have an update from a user login. The goal here
is to allow an administrative login to handle the update while users are
currently connected.
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