Dave
> Am 10.05.2019 um 17:23 schrieb Dave Ford <abs...@bath.ac.uk.invalid>: > > Hello, > > We've running many instances of Tomcat 8.5 on some dozens of linux > servers. All of this is being managed by Puppet using the puppetforge > tomcat module. > > The Puppet module that deploys tomcat simple checks to see if the > NOTICE file is the correct place to determine whether or not it should > unpack a provided tarball into Catalina_home. > > My question is this - as we've gone and placed our catalina_base folder > within a subfolder of catalina_home, we're not going to want to simply > delete the C_H folder to reinstall a newer version. > > Is it safe/sane to unpack a new minor release (say 8.5.40) over the > existing installation of (8.4.32) over an existing Catalina_Home? > > Or should I simply bite the bullet, rework my puppet code to deploy the > instances outside of Catalina_Home and wipe C_H before redeploying it > with a newer version? Take a big bite and make the most of the separation of home and base. Well you noticed the point of the separate directories already. > Regards, > Dave > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > Just my 2ct Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
