[Linux-HA] Instructions for Rolling Upgrade missing?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Doug Knight <dknight at wsi.com> wrote:
> List,
>  I am in the process of planning heartbeat upgrades for our prototype
>  servers, in preparation for configuring our new production systems. As
>  part of upgrading heartbeat, I wanted to plan out a process for
>  upgrading production systems with little or no impact to services
>  availability. I found the following Rolling Upgrade page on the Linux-HA
>  website:
>
>  http://www.linux-ha.org/RollingUpgrade
>
>  But there are no instructions. There is a link to the Transparent
>  Upgrade page, which has instructions for that method (and which may be a
>  more viable route for my upgrades anyway). However, I'd really like to
>  see the instructions for doing a Rolling Upgrade, before I make my
>  decision which one to implement. Does anyone have the instructions (or
>  could point me to them) for a Rolling Upgrade?

1) pick a node
2) stop heartbeat
3) upgrade heartbeat (and/or OS) software
4) start heartbeat
5) goto 1

:-)

>
>  I am upgrading from 2.0.8 to 2.1.3, Linux Red Hat 5 (production servers
>  will be CentOS 5.1). Also, I've seen a lot of talk on the email lists of
>  the various parts to Heartbeat, as separate items (like Pacemaker, etc).
>  Will simply grabbing the heartbeat tar file be enough to upgrade
>  everything?

Not anymore... the crm code has been removed from the heartbeat project.
The easiest way is to grab the rpms from:
   http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/ha-clustering/RHEL_5/

The page below will show you what you need to install:
   http://clusterlabs.org/mw/Install#Heartbeat-Only_Package_List