[Box-Admins] Intent to upgrade box4 VM from VMr.2776 to VM.r2987

[David T. Lewis]

Hi Chris

The upgrade sounds fine, although I think we are going to have a package
conflict between the Cog installation and the original squeakvm installation.
Most probably the Debian package manager is not going to be happy about that.

We currently have squeakvm (interpreter VM) installed on box3 and box4 in the
standard locations and directories. The debs are in /root/localbuilds, as
per the Ken Causey conventions (along with our notes in /root/admin-log.txt).

I expect that adding a local deb for Cog probably will just require restricting
the package to the binaries (not all the help files and such), and presumably
renaming the start script so that it does not step on /usr/local/bin/squeak.

I'll be happy to help you sort this out, assuming I have Eliot's support
for any naming changes.

p.s. Thanks for bringing this up on box-admins before making the change.
Much appreciated :-)

Dave

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:14:51PM -0400, Chris Cunnington 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. 
> 
> 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