Project: 100% Manual Upgrades

[madcat]

Hello. I am interested in figuring out how to update Plesk in a manner that is as manual as possible, and if you search this forum for "updater screwed up AGAIN! :-(" or something similar, you'll see why.

I've recently upgraded a server from 8.3, to 8.4, then to 8.6, and not one of the upgrades was without problems. An example of this is:

Stop running named daemon
Trying to stop service named... done
Trying to untar named run-root directory structure... mknod: `dev/random': File exists
mknod: `dev/urandom': File exists
done
Trying to set up default permissions... chown: cannot access `/var/named/run-root/var/run/named/named.pid': No such file or directory

ERROR while trying to set up default permissions

Aborting...

STOP psa-8.4.0-cos4.build84080425.19 upgrading AT Thu Jul 31 16:03:40 PDT 2008

The problem here is that the file /var/named/run-root/var/run/named/named.pid doesn't exist. This is because I have stopped the nameserver, because DNS for all domains is handled by a different server. What does the installer do? Properly written software would handle this problem gracefully, note the "error" and continue. Instead, this "auto updater" just dies, with the server 1/2 way between 8.3 and 8.4. I managed to fix it by forcefully installing the /tmp/PSA_8.4.0/dist-rpm-CentOS-4.3-x86_64/base/psa-8.4.0-cos4.build84080425.19.x86_64.rpm . It wouldn't do it without "--force" because it thought the RPM was already installed.

I grow tired of this.

For future upgrades, I'd like to download the RPM's from the website and install them manually. I don't want to use the "Update" icon in the control panel, nor do I want to use /usr/local/psa/bin/autoinstaller, as both always have been, and probably always will be broken.

Question: Does anybody know what order to install the RPM's, and if any other commands have to be run to perform an upgrade?

Thanks.

 

[ziba@]

Hi,

Question: Does anybody know what order to install the RPM's, and if any other commands have to be run to perform an upgrade?

There should not be a specific order. Just download plesk distributive archive, unpack and install all packages using
rpm -Uvh list_of_all_rpms_from_archive

This will update plesk base packages and all its modules/components. However it may give you some dependency errors and you will need to download packages needed and add them to list of rpms you are updating with rpm -Uvh.