On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:20:10AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
Didn't Levente ask us to use stable VM's for production services?
Yes he did, and we definitely should follow Levente's guidance here. That said, there is no reason that we should not use new and experimental things on squeak.org, as long as the changes are done in a controlled manner under Levente's guidance. I think that Chris C has done exactly the right thing here by announcing his planned changes in advance, and checking for problems before actually making the change. Granted, there have been some cases where we have all been careless in these matters, but I think that this proposed change is being handled in the right way :-)
Dave
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Chris Cunnington brasspen@gmail.com wrote:
I intend to upgrade the VM on box4 VM.r2776 (Aug. 2013) to VM.r2987 (June 2014). The intention here is to refine the install/removal process. I just did this on my Debian Wheezy box, so it seems pretty straightforward.
3018 is the latest and greatest. Please use it.
Installing:
- get a Cog binary from mirandabanda.org
- use Ken's cogdeb.zip to make a deb
- install with dpkg (i.e. dpkg -i cogvm_2776-1_i386.deb)
- execute "man squeak" to see if it's loaded
Removing:
- check the package name with dpkg-query -l
- see it's actually called "coglinux" as opposed to cogvm or squeak
- dpkg -r coglinux
So, as I said, I just did this on my server and is seemed to work OK. I plan to upgrade the VM from last year's model (2776) to this year's (2987). If there's anything people with more LInux experience could add to this process, I'd be happy to hear it.
Chris
-- best, Eliot