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Installing Patches
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:05 pm
by Victorgm
I would like to apply the appropriate patches to my cluster:
3-nodes on Amazon standard AMI
select version() ;
Vertica Analytic Database v7.1.1-0
I see that several patches are listed on Vertica's customer ftp site.
Is there a roll-up patch, or must all of them be applied?
I assume they must be applied in sequence (1.1, 1,2 1.3...) - please confirm.
I see
RHEL5.rpm
SUSE.rpm
AMD64.deb
How can I determine which flavor is right for my cluster?
Many thanks for your help!
Re: Installing Patches
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 4:35 pm
by id10t
Hi!
Version
XXX.YYY.ZZZ means:
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XXX - release version
YYY - major fix/patch
ZZZ - minor fix/patch
It is always advised & better to follow recommended upgrade path which is
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6.0.zzz >>> 6.1.zzz >>> 6.2.zzz >>> 6.3.zzz >>> ... >>> 7.0.zzz >>> 7.1.zzz >>> 7.2.zzz
i.e. upgrade version of major fix to the most recent (6.0 > 6.1 > 6.2 > ...) and after it the release itself (6.MAX > 7.0 > 7.1 > 7.2 > ...)
PS
major fix
YYY includes all minor fixes for major fix
YYY-1
Re: Installing Patches
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:21 pm
by Victorgm
Perfect... thank you!
If anyone can help with my Linux flavor question that would be great.
Re: Installing Patches
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:45 pm
by JimKnicely
You need to figure out what Linux distro/version you are running:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-linux ... on-number/
Re: Installing Patches
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:23 pm
by id10t
... to figure out Linux flavour type in terminal:
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python -c "import platform; print ' '.join(platform.dist())"
Snippet determines the name of the Linux OS distribution name.
Supported distributions:
- SuSE
- debian
- fedora
- redhat
- centos
- mandrake
- mandriva
- rocks
- slackware
- yellowdog
- gentoo
- UnitedLinux
- turbolinux
- Ubuntu
Example:
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daniel@synapse:~$ python -c "import platform; print ' '.join(platform.dist())"
Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Re: Installing Patches
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:06 am
by JimKnicely
#id10t, thanks for sharing that python script that shows the Linux distro/version!!! That's very handy
Re: Installing Patches
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:42 pm
by Victorgm
Thanks id10t, thanks Jim. Your help is much appreciated!