On Wednesday 17 March 2010 11:08:27 Morgan Cox wrote: > Just wondering what the best way of upgrading openvas (3) from source. > > I just mean a point release i.e 3.0.1 -> 3.0.2 . > > At the minute I just delete/backup the old /opt/openvas3 dir then compile > openvas libs then the scanner from source from fresh. > > Is there a better way to upgrade ?
As long as the CHANGES dont hint you otherwise, these updates should go smooth even without removing your data. Its a good idea though to backup your data. Also, consider to run "make uninstall" or "make distclean". > I did just try to compile a newer version of the libraries and scanner over > the original version in /opt/openvas3, after doing that it seemed to get > stuck on the md5 check when running openvas-nvt-sync . Once I had removed > the /opt/openvas3 dir and did make install again in the new libraries and > scanner it was fine. I am not aware of any change that could have caused that, but I might miss something. Please keep informing us if such problems occur in the future. > Sorry if none of this makes sense, its early and I have only have 1 cup of > coffee so far.......... I hope that is solved by now. enjoy, -- felix -- Felix Wolfsteller | ++49 541 335083-783 | http://www.intevation.de/ PGP Key: 39DE0100 Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
