Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
Good morning, I'm wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install *all* files to a different location so I don't overwrite *any* 2.1.6 production files. Once I've validated operation on 2.1.10 I'll install it to it's normal location. So, if I specify -prefix=/devel/; will this work OK for what I'm wanting - or do I need to take other actions as well, such as: --with-radacctdir= and --with-raddbdir=, etc.? TIA! Gary font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
On 05/11/2011 12:04 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: Good morning, I’m wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don’t overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. Once I’ve validated operation on 2.1.10 I’ll install it to it’s normal location. So, if I specify –prefix=/devel/; will this work OK for what I’m wanting – or do I need to take other actions as well, such as: --with-radacctdir= and --with-raddbdir=, etc.? The preferred mechanism is to specify DESTDIR, every installed file/directory is then created in it's normal location, but hung under a DESTDIR root. You can either: export DESTDIR=/devel or make install R=/devel -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
On 11/05/11 17:16, John Dennis wrote: On 05/11/2011 12:04 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: Good morning, I’m wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don’t overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. Once I’ve validated operation on 2.1.10 I’ll install it to it’s normal location. So, if I specify –prefix=/devel/; will this work OK for what I’m wanting – or do I need to take other actions as well, such as: --with-radacctdir= and --with-raddbdir=, etc.? The preferred mechanism is to specify DESTDIR, every installed file/directory is then created in it's normal location, but hung under a DESTDIR root. You can either: That's fine for packaging, but if you actually want to *run* the server from /devel, ./configure --prefix=/devel is surely preferred, as it'll update the include paths in the generated config dictionaries. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
RE: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm actually running RHEL. I couldn't find where DESTDIR would be referenced, nor that R= is a valid argument. Are these 'undocumented' options? I guess I can try it and see what happens! G -Original Message- From: John Dennis [mailto:jden...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:16 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Cc: Gary Gatten Subject: Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location On 05/11/2011 12:04 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: Good morning, I'm wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don't overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. Once I've validated operation on 2.1.10 I'll install it to it's normal location. So, if I specify -prefix=/devel/; will this work OK for what I'm wanting - or do I need to take other actions as well, such as: --with-radacctdir= and --with-raddbdir=, etc.? The preferred mechanism is to specify DESTDIR, every installed file/directory is then created in it's normal location, but hung under a DESTDIR root. You can either: export DESTDIR=/devel or make install R=/devel -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
On 05/11/2011 12:22 PM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 11/05/11 17:16, John Dennis wrote: On 05/11/2011 12:04 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: Good morning, I’m wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don’t overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. Once I’ve validated operation on 2.1.10 I’ll install it to it’s normal location. So, if I specify –prefix=/devel/; will this work OK for what I’m wanting – or do I need to take other actions as well, such as: --with-radacctdir= and --with-raddbdir=, etc.? The preferred mechanism is to specify DESTDIR, every installed file/directory is then created in it's normal location, but hung under a DESTDIR root. You can either: That's fine for packaging, but if you actually want to *run* the server from /devel, ./configure --prefix=/devel is surely preferred, as it'll update the include paths in the generated config dictionaries. Good point, good explanation of the distinction. -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
On 05/11/2011 12:24 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm actually running RHEL. I couldn't find where DESTDIR would be referenced, nor that R= is a valid argument. Are these 'undocumented' options? I guess I can try it and see what happens! You didn't say you were installing pre-built RPM's, that's a different matter altogether, I though you were building from source. You can't simultaneously install two different versions of the same RPM. Here are a few suggestions for your use case in order of preference: * Always keep your config files under source code control. That's a good idea for a variety of reasons. After you install a new version of freeradius from RPM you can tweak to your hearts desire, once all is good (or better yet incrementally) commit the files, you can always roll back versions at your discretion. Source code control is a good thing (tm). If the config is under source code control you'll always have history, you can tag working configurations, do experiments, etc. all without fear. * After an RPM install the new config files from the new version should appear as xxx.rpmnew if you've modified the previous verserion, where xxx is a config file. * copy /etc/raddb to a backup location. -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
I am only installing from source, I apologize if I lead you to believe otherwise. I've copied all known 216 dirs and files and have built/installed 2110 using --prefix and several other args to ensure all files were placed under /devel/. In some cases files were placed directly under /devel/ where I expected a child dir would be created, but that's fine for my purposes. And yes, I want to execute radiusd from the /devel directory. I have to tweak the clients file and such, bu should be ready to fire it up shortly. Thanks all for your help! G - Original Message - From: John Dennis [mailto:jden...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:54 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Cc: Gary Gatten Subject: Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location On 05/11/2011 12:24 PM, Gary Gatten wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply! I'm actually running RHEL. I couldn't find where DESTDIR would be referenced, nor that R= is a valid argument. Are these 'undocumented' options? I guess I can try it and see what happens! You didn't say you were installing pre-built RPM's, that's a different matter altogether, I though you were building from source. You can't simultaneously install two different versions of the same RPM. Here are a few suggestions for your use case in order of preference: * Always keep your config files under source code control. That's a good idea for a variety of reasons. After you install a new version of freeradius from RPM you can tweak to your hearts desire, once all is good (or better yet incrementally) commit the files, you can always roll back versions at your discretion. Source code control is a good thing (tm). If the config is under source code control you'll always have history, you can tag working configurations, do experiments, etc. all without fear. * After an RPM install the new config files from the new version should appear as xxx.rpmnew if you've modified the previous verserion, where xxx is a config file. * copy /etc/raddb to a backup location. -- John Dennis jden...@redhat.com Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
Gary Gatten wrote: I’m wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don’t overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. FreeRADIUS does *not* over-write any production configuration files. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
Hi Alan, I did read that in the doc somewhere, but I didn't want to overwrite any files; bins, modules, confs, doc, etc. I wanted to be sure the prod 2.1.6 remains 100% unchanged when I install/test 2.1.10. So far so good! G - Original Message - From: Alan DeKok [mailto:al...@deployingradius.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:48 PM To: FreeRadius users mailing list freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location Gary Gatten wrote: I’m wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don’t overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. FreeRADIUS does *not* over-write any production configuration files. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
Re: Install new version (2.1.10) to completely different location
Hi, I’m wanting to upgrade to 2.1.10, however, I want to install **all** files to a different location so I don’t overwrite **any** 2.1.6 production files. FreeRADIUS does *not* over-write any production configuration files. Worth noting though that it will add default files to modules/ and sites-enabled/default inner-tunnel - if you have a cleaned-up subdirs and/or renamed things inside sites-enabled, then make install can create some surprises. Recent versions allow to rename the source /raddb directory to something else like /raddb-noinst, and a subsequent make install will then not touch raddb. Greetings, Stefan Winter -- Stefan WINTER Ingenieur de Recherche Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg Tel: +352 424409 1 Fax: +352 422473 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
