[Linux-HA] Instructions for Rolling Upgrade missing?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Doug Knight <dknight at wsi.com> wrote:
> Could you clarify some things? See below:
>
>
>  On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:06 +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>
>  > 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
>
>  Upgrade heartbeat, install pacemaker? Does the heartbeat src.rpm include
>  the heartbeat-common and heartbeat-resources packages, or do I need to
>  get them elsewhere?

Why not use the pre-built ones?

>
>
>  >
>  > 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/
>
>  Is there a well defined set of instructions to upgrade from a version of
>  heartbeat prior to splitting it out into multiple packages (in this case
>  2.0.8) to the new organization of 2.1.3?

A regular "rpm -Uvh" _should_ work.  If it doesn't, please let me know

> Do these various packages
>  install to the same location that the single package heartbeat installed
>  to?

For the most part, yes.
All the binaries are in the regular places.

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