Re: [GNC] [MAINT] server upgrade planned Feb 3, 2019 1200-2300 US/EST

[Liz]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:35:58 -0500
Derek Atkins <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> PLANNED MAINTENANCE
> WHAT:  Upgrading Operating System on Code
> WHEN:  Feb 3, 2019  1200-2300 US/EST (1700-0400 UTC)
>
>
> tl;dr: I am planning to upgrade the OS on code.gnucash.org on February
>         3, 2019 from 1200-2300 US/EDT (1700-0400 UTC).  During this
>         time, git master, wiki, email/mailman, and gncbot/irc logs
> will all be unavailable.  I'll be on #gnucash IRC for real-time
>         updates and notices.
>
>
> Long version:
>
> The GnuCash "everything" server is getting a little long on the tooth,
> and to enable some upgraded build tools I plan to upgrade the server
> from Fedora 25 to Fedora 29.  I plan to do this upgrade on Sunday,
> February 3, 2019, starting somewhere around 12:00 noon US/EST
> (although my personal schedule might push that back, hense the long
> maintenance window).  I've upgraded a few systems from F25 -> F29
> already, some of them upgraded in an hour, one system took over 4
> hours.
>
> Code has lots of services so I expect it will take a long time to
> upgrade and verify that everything is working.
>
> During the upgrade window code will be unavailable, and the services
> running on code will be unavailable.  I will stay on IRC during the
> upgrade to make real-time announcements.
>
> Please let me know if this time frame does not work for you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -derek
>

Well that's so many hours less spam I get to check....
I'm quite happy with the proposal

:)

Liz
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[Xboxboy Mageia]

On Wed., 16 Jan. 2019, 7:06 pm Liz <[hidden email] wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:35:58 -0500
> Derek Atkins <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > PLANNED MAINTENANCE
> > WHAT:  Upgrading Operating System on Code
> > WHEN:  Feb 3, 2019  1200-2300 US/EST (1700-0400 UTC)
> >
> >
> > tl;dr: I am planning to upgrade the OS on code.gnucash.org on February
> >         3, 2019 from 1200-2300 US/EDT (1700-0400 UTC).  During this
> >         time, git master, wiki, email/mailman, and gncbot/irc logs
> > will all be unavailable.  I'll be on #gnucash IRC for real-time
> >         updates and notices.
> >
> >
> > Long version:
> >
> > The GnuCash "everything" server is getting a little long on the tooth,
> > and to enable some upgraded build tools I plan to upgrade the server
> > from Fedora 25 to Fedora 29.  I plan to do this upgrade on Sunday,
> > February 3, 2019, starting somewhere around 12:00 noon US/EST
> > (although my personal schedule might push that back, hense the long
> > maintenance window).  I've upgraded a few systems from F25 -> F29
> > already, some of them upgraded in an hour, one system took over 4
> > hours.
> >
> > Code has lots of services so I expect it will take a long time to
> > upgrade and verify that everything is working.
> >
> > During the upgrade window code will be unavailable, and the services
> > running on code will be unavailable.  I will stay on IRC during the
> > upgrade to make real-time announcements.
> >
> > Please let me know if this time frame does not work for you.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -derek
> >
>
> Well that's so many hours less spam I get to check....
> I'm quite happy with the proposal
>
> :)
>
> Liz
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I've got two fedora servers that have done multiple os updates over the
years. Mine have all gone smoothly. Best of luck, hope it goes as well as
mine have.

>
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[Derek Atkins-3]

Liz <[hidden email]> writes:

> Well that's so many hours less spam I get to check....
> I'm quite happy with the proposal

Hahah.  I don't expect to have 11 hours of down time -- but I don't know
what my personal schedule will be that day so I wanted to leave
wiggle-room for when I'll actually get to do the work.  I might not be
able to start until 1800 local time instead of 1200 local -- it's really
going to depend on the family and our superbowl plans.  I figured, worst
case, I would have the laptop next to me while watching the game :)

> :)
>
> Liz

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[Derek Atkins-3]

Xboxboy Mageia <[hidden email]> writes:

> I've got two fedora servers that have done multiple os updates over the
> years. Mine have all gone smoothly. Best of luck, hope it goes as well as
> mine have.

Thanks.  I've upgraded several machines (real and virtual) from F25 ->
F29 over the past week or two.  Some have gone more smoothly than
others.  But of course YMMV.  For example, there were some packaging
issues going from F27 -> F28 that required me to remove some packages,
upgrade, and then add them back in.  I don't think code will be affected
by this, but you never know.  This is also why I try very very very hard
to keep to distributed packages and not build-your-own.

The real key, however, is to make sure that all the services are
properly configured at the end of the process.  For example, on one
server I had the httpd.conf file got reset, which required me to
re-configure it.  I suspect this will happen on code, too.  In other
case, a giflib program that I was using was dropped (upstream), causing
some scripts to break.  This specifically wont affect code, but a
similar issue might arrise.  It's "minor" things like this that I feel
will take the most amount of time, not the dnf system-upgrade steps.

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