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Automatic upgrades with Debian packages

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Updated by ergonlogic on 04/01/2011 - 18:16
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Regular update process

Upgrading your Debian package should be as simple as running:

apt-get install aegir-provision

.. to update the backup. Note how you can upgrade aegir in steps. If you want to upgrade all packages in one shot, use:

apt-get install aegir-provision aegir-hostmaster

As during install, you can use the DEBUG variable to run drush in debugging:

env DEBUG=yes apt-get install aegir-hostmaster

Upgrading from non-Debian packages

The Debian package supports migrating from existing installs. Just install the package as if you were installing from scratch.

You will need to move /var/aegir/.drush/provision out of the way before going ahead:

tar cfz /var/aegir/backups/provision.tgz /var/aegir/.drush/provision
rm -rf /var/aegir/.drush/provision

Custom distributions

If you have your own makefile, you can go ahead with the above process, but trigger low-priority questions:

echo "debconf debconf/priority        select low" | debconf-set-selections
apt-get install -plow aegir
echo "debconf debconf/priority        select normal" | debconf-set-selections

This will makesure you are asked for the makefile path for your custom distribution of Aegir.

Troubleshooting your upgrade

If something went wrong with the upgrade, you can rollback by deleting the hostmaster site and redeploying on the older platform:

drush @hostmaster provision-delete
vi ~/.drush/hostmaster.alias.drushrc.php
drush @hostmaster provision-deploy ~/backups/hostmaster.date.tgz

The trick is to change the alias to make the following changes:

  1. change the platform to point to the older platform alias
  2. change the platform root path
  3. change the site path

During the upgrade, a backup was done and you need to find which backup file it was in the backups directory.

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dman
11:56pm Nov 26, 2013

#1

In the course of a normal update (adding php5-xsl) we were a little worried by the following messages:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  aegir-provision (..other php5 updates..)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aegir aegir-hostmaster (..other php5 updates..)
This - threatening to REMOVE an existing working Aegir infrastructure was a bit scary. Even if it will (probably?) be replaced. The original install was from koumbit yeah.

I'd have liked to see a message on this wiki page saying "If you get this message, it's OK to say 'Yes' and everything will be replaced safely". If that is the case... It is worrying. Can this be clarified?