Below are draft instructions I just wrote up for creating a new SemiVivA package resulting from development done of a prior SemiVivA package. They are hot off the presses (or hot off my keyboard) and almost certainly contain errors. So please send me any errata.
-- Bhaskar --------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW These instructions are for creating a SemiVivA distribution of a new version of an application (e.g., a VistA release) that was installed from a SemiVivA release of the same application (the general theory of development environments for VistA on GT.M is described at http://tinyurl.com/738jk). ASSUMPTIONS The base SemiVivA version of VistA (FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060615 is used here as an example) is installed as a sub-directory of /usr/local/, e.g., /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060615/. GT.M is also installed in a subdirectory of /usr/local/, e.g., /usr/local/gtm_V5.1-000. A working development/integration environment was created in a normal user directory using the install script in /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060615/install. For the purposes of this write up, ~vistauser/myVistA/ is assumed to be the development/integration environment with the changes. CREATE A NEW RELEASE The following steps should be performed as a normal user (e.g., vistauser). Create a working directory in which to build the release, e.g., ~vistauser/newVistA/ by making a copy of /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060615: cp -av /usr/local/FOIAVistA20060615 ~vistauser/newVistA Move any routines in the patch subdirectory to the routine subdirectory: mv ~/newVistA/p/*.m ~/newVistA/r/ Overwrite the those routines in newVistA with the routines in myVistA: cp -p ~vistauser/myVistA/{p,r}/*.m ~vistauser/newVistA/r/ Delete the object files in newVistA and compile new ones: find ~vistauser/newVistA -iname \*.o -exec rm {} \; cd ~vistauser/o source /usr/local/gtm_V5.1-000/gtmprofile find ../r -iname \*.m -print -exec mumps {} \; The last step will generate a number of compilation error messages. This is normal because VistA contains code for several MUMPS implementations, and some of these are syntactically incorrect for GT.M. However, they are "protected" and will not be executed on GT.M. Delete the compressed database in newVistA: rm ~vistauser/newVistA/g/mumps.dat.gz Make a backup copy of the database in myVistA to newVistA (this backup also turns off journaling in the backup copy): export vista_home=~vistauser/myVistA mupip backup -nojournal DEFAULT ~/vistauser/newVistA/ [Optional but recommended] Defragment up the backuped up copy of database and test for structural integrity: mupip reorg ~vistauser/g/mumps.dat mupip integ ~vistauser/g/mumps.dat Gzip the database in newVistA: gzip ~vistauser/g/mumps.dat [Optional] Create a readme file, e.g., ~vistauser/ReadMe.txt Make the files in newVistA read-only and ensure everyone has read access: chmod -R -w ~vistauser/newVistA chmod -R a+r ~vistauser/newVistA The following steps should be performed as root. Move the newVistA directory to be a subdirectory of /usr/local, such as /usr/local/newVistA20060731/: mv ~vistauser/newVistA /usr/local/newVistA20060731 (If cp is used rather than mv, make sure to use the -rp or -a flag to ensure that the files in the o subdirectory have newer time stamps than the corresponding files in the r subdirectory.) Change the ownership of the files in /usr/local/newVistA to root.root: chown -R root.root /usr/local/newVistA20060731 [Optional] If there is a previous version of newVistA in /usr/local/, with a symbolic link pointing to it, it can be replaced with a new symbolic link, e.g.: cd /usr/local rm newVistA ln -s newVistA20060731 newVistA Create the distribution file (in this example, assumed to be /Distrib/VistA/newVistASemiVivA20060731.tgz): tar zcvf /Distrib/VistA/newVistA20060731SemiVivA.tgz gtm newVistA gtm_V5.1-000 newVistA20060731 TESTING Copy the file /Distrib/VistA/newVistA20060731.tgz to a different Linux PC. As root, install it: cd /usr/local tar zxvf /Distrib/VistA/newVistA20060731.tgz As a normal user, create an environment: /usr/local/newVistA20060731/install ~vistauser/testVistA Run and verify the environment: ~vistauser/testVistA/run --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
