Hi Andries I believe I can wait for 1.8 distribution to be released. Our development team mainly asked for the upgrade after noticing the tarball released for 1.8 in your website. They wanted to upgrade and test our new connector with the latest available release.
Thanks Ramya >-----Original Message----- >From: Andries Engelbrecht [mailto:aengelbre...@maprtech.com] >Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 2:43 PM >To: user@drill.apache.org >Subject: Re: Drill upgrade Questions >Ramya, >The MapR Drill 1.8 package has not been released yet. The latest MapR Drill >Sandbox is Drill 1.6 on MapR 5.1. >Which is available from here >http://maprdocs.mapr.com/home/Drill/Installing-the-Apache-Dri_27689260.html ><http://maprdocs.mapr.com/home/Drill/Installing-the-Apache-Dri_27689260.html> >Once the MapR Drill 1.8 packaging is released you can upgrade to Drill 1.8 on >the Sandbox or see if a newer version is available with Drill 1.8 on it. >Do you need Drill 1.8 now or is 1.6 sufficient in the short term? >--Andries > > > > On Sep 12, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Ramya Vasudevan <rvasude...@tableau.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > I used MapR-Sandbox-For-Apache-Drill-1.4.0-5.0.0-vmware.ova to install Mapr > 5.0 with Drill 1.6.0 on a CentOS 6.7 VM in the past. > > I am now trying to upgrade drill to 1.8.0 and downloaded > apache-drill-1.8.0.tar.gz from > https://drill.apache.org/blog/2016/08/30/drill-1.8-released/ > > Looking at > http://doc.mapr.com/display/MapR/Upgrading+to+the+Latest+Version+of+Drill, I > gather that a yum upgrade to 1.8.0 rpm is not possible. Is that correct? > - If not, can you please point me to the rpm download location and/or > instructions for it? > > Or, can I follow https://drill.apache.org/docs/drill-in-10-minutes/ and > extract apache-drill-1.8.0.tar.gz to location and restore all the .conf files > from 1.6.0 location? > - If so, what are the complete set of instructions for the upgrade? > > Thank You, > Ramya > > >
