changeset 2478:3ab2b91cdd2c

*** empty log message ***
author Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
date Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:40:52 +0000
parents 591e3cfe622a
children 7f9f1c66c1b6
files doc/admin_guide.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/admin_guide.txt	Thu Jun 17 05:47:56 2004 +0000
+++ b/doc/admin_guide.txt	Thu Jun 17 08:40:52 2004 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Administration Guide
 ====================
 
-:Version: $Revision: 1.8 $
+:Version: $Revision: 1.10 $
 
 .. contents::
 
@@ -100,35 +100,34 @@
 Always make a backup of your tracker before upgrading software. Steps you may
 take:
 
-1. Ensure that the unit tests run on your system:
+1. Ensure that the unit tests run on your system::
 
     python run_tests.py
 
 2. If you're using an RDBMS backend, make a backup of its contents now.
-3. Copy your tracker home to a new directory.
-
-Now, working in that copied tracker home:
-
-1. Follow the steps in the `upgrading documentation`_ for the new version of
+3. Make a backup of the tracker home itself.
+4. Stop the tracker web and email frontends.
+5. Follow the steps in the `upgrading documentation`_ for the new version of
    the software in the copied.
-2. Test each of the admin tool, web interface and mail gateway using the new
-   version of the software. To do this, invoke the scripts directly in the
-   source directory with::
+6. You may test each of the admin tool, web interface and mail gateway using
+   the new version of the software. To do this, invoke the scripts directly
+   in the source directory with::
 
     PYTHONPATH=. python roundup/scripts/roundup_server.py <normal arguments>
     PYTHONPATH=. python roundup/scripts/roundup_admin.py <normal arguments>
     PYTHONPATH=. python roundup/scripts/roundup_mailgw.py <normal arguments>
 
-Once you're comfortable that the upgrade will work using that copy, you
-should upgrade the live version:
+   Note that on Windows, this would read::
 
-1. Stop the production web and email frontends.
-2. Perform the upgrade steps on the existing tracker directory.
-3. Upgrade the software::
+    C:\sources\roundup-0.7.4> SET PYTHONPATH=.
+    C:\sources\roundup-0.7.4> python roundup/scripts/roundup_server.py <normal arguments>
+
+7. Once you're comfortable that the upgrade will work using that copy, you
+   should the installed software::
 
     python setup.py install
 
-4. Restart your tracker.
+8. Restart your tracker web and email frontends.
 
 If something bad happens, you may reinstate your backup of the tracker and
 reinstall the older version of the sofware using the same install command::

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