Hello Ramya, MapR Drill 1.8 will be publicly available this afternoon. I suggest using that distribution to upgrade your current install.
Kind Regards, Aman On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ramya, > > I’m not familiar with the RPM/DEB packages for Apache Drill. However, you > can certainly use your second option below: extract the Drill archive. For > Apache Drill, the archive is self-contained. > > As you noted, in either case, you must merge your config files. > > - Drill-override.conf: back up your old file, copy it into your new Drill > install. > - drill-env.sh: This one is a bit trickier for 1.8. Identify any changes > you your self added. Copy these into the new Drill 1.8 file. > > The reason for the drill-env.sh change is that, in 1.8, we removed the > Drill defaults from this file. Going forward, it will contain only your own > site-specific settings. When upgrading from 1.7 (or earlier) to 1.8, you > need to copy your settings to the new file. After that, just like > drill-override.conf, you can simply copy the file from one release to the > next. > > If you created any UDF jars, you must also copy those from your old Drill > to the new one. > > Thanks, > > - Paul > > > On Sep 12, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Ramya Vasudevan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > I used MapR-Sandbox-For-Apache-Drill-1.4.0-5.0.0-vmware.ova to install > Mapr 5.0 with Drill 1.6.0 on a CentOS 6.7 VM in the past. > > > > I am now trying to upgrade drill to 1.8.0 and downloaded > apache-drill-1.8.0.tar.gz from https://drill.apache.org/blog/ > 2016/08/30/drill-1.8-released/ > > > > Looking at http://doc.mapr.com/display/MapR/Upgrading+to+the+Latest+ > Version+of+Drill, I gather that a yum upgrade to 1.8.0 rpm is not > possible. Is that correct? > > - If not, can you please point me to the rpm download location > and/or instructions for it? > > > > Or, can I follow https://drill.apache.org/docs/drill-in-10-minutes/ and > extract apache-drill-1.8.0.tar.gz to location and restore all the .conf > files from 1.6.0 location? > > - If so, what are the complete set of instructions for the upgrade? > > > > Thank You, > > Ramya > > > > > > > > -- Aman Bawa Senior Director, Engineering Program Management (650) 279-7827 [email protected] skypeid amanbawa Now Available - Free Hadoop On-Demand Training <http://www.mapr.com/training?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Signature&utm_campaign=Free%20available>
