-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Peter and Dave,
On 5/10/19 17:16, Peter Kreuser wrote: > > 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. +1 > Well you noticed the point of the separate directories already. Having them completely separate also means that you can leave the old CATALINA_HOME directory in-place and, if necessary, downgrade with very little effort. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAlzWw5MACgkQHPApP6U8 pFiS3g//boCrjIrjpWX2ft9dXQI7XYeRGaC5sOoX6umbupbyUmPtCv+w0NbI4aJM pk5c9V/U5h7VXwxUrL7V/wYWxzHnzfbH6zijSzWUkHh9rwv6XOwPCAdaV2NCyaqa M8AztNKckQRpusn7FwnjD+banJ5zoL1LMCB82BHY0dKgQ+lqn2r4qxnWulq0MAKn 7dSNqVEtJgzWOYzoQSGKQJ0VtbvTzUoG7GyA1SWULLCs0yOopJOHAI1/3GTCOIMH EIslSPcp5dyMcNRpLmt5rAhc1qhNQimgQZo/dNZLBIlqq9x8IgVjsFe8qBVvtqY9 /88mmitbW22FzxOnTWEAKnI+6qczIQmm48UTMGXMm9W/lfAKmLEHdaIHEt6vpfDu QomEMaWSr6Z/gDH0EyHBiHF1BeagCsoCNlLK2OkaOd3O26xmzSsrGz7DYahX7Kab 57Or5c5/WHwMBG1geXNMf0yuTBI/C/d2NqA6mzJ2afA8HJxdAba0OX++hqelKots DtGZCEVcp7Xrv6heepiUF64ObVyxCrdCAuaO0UAKxYVRaSTAe5vrOpB/TfeUbJu/ h8DmLw8KceGWQHpI66Pj2iu8jEBlrUjTPyAugm0qJimPB+ziGEesAI/gvf+WpyQ1 OkJi6Gu2CuYHUlrPpP4fqxaJGtHPNJWVypJqfBI/5C47ihKi0Lk= =oWxo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
