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For Grouper 2.5+ see the new approach for Grouper 2.5+ packaging and versioning strategy   


  1. To upgrade tomcat, get the latest tomcat of the correct version.
  2. For Grouper 2.4, this is tomcat 8.5

  3. Get the tar.gz link to the latest, download to webprod3, e.g.

    [mchyzer@webprod3 tools]$ pwd
/home/htdocs/software.internet2.edu/grouper/downloads/tools
[mchyzer@webprod3 tools]$ wget http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.42/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.42.tar.gz
--2019-06-25 16:24:55-- http://apache.mirrors.hoobly.com/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.42/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.42.tar.gz
Resolving apache.mirrors.hoobly.com... 69.64.41.166
Connecting to apache.mirrors.hoobly.com|69.64.41.166|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9711748 (9.3M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “apache-tomcat-8.5.42.tar.gz”

100%[==========================================================================================>] 9,711,748 29.6M/s in 0.3s

2019-06-25 16:24:56 (29.6 MB/s) - “apache-tomcat-8.5.42.tar.gz” saved [9711748/9711748]
  4. Change tomcat version in several places in installer properties and grouper installer java file, commit/push

  5. Update the installer jar and tarball

    [mchyzer@i2midev6 bin]$ /home/mchyzer/bin/getGrouperSource.sh master
[mchyzer@i2midev6 bin]$ /home/mchyzer/bin/buildGrouperInstaller.sh master

[mchyzer@login1 ~]$ sftp i2midev6
sftp> lcd /tmp
sftp> get /home/mchyzer/tmp/grouper-installer/build_mchyzer/grouper.installer-2.4.0.tar.gz
sftp> get /home/mchyzer/tmp/grouper-installer/build_mchyzer/grouper-installer/dist/grouperInstaller.jar

[mchyzer@login1 ~]$ sftp webprod3
sftp> cd /home/htdocs/software.internet2.edu/grouper/release/2.4.0/
sftp> rename grouperInstaller.jar grouperInstaller.jar.YYYYMMDD
sftp> rename grouper.installer-2.4.0.tar.gz grouper.installer-2.4.0.tar.gz.YYYYMMDD
sftp> put /tmp/grouperInstaller.jar 
Uploading /tmp/grouperInstaller.jar to /home/htdocs/software.internet2.edu/grouper/release/2.4.0/grouperInstaller.jar
/tmp/grouperInstaller.jar                                                                         100% 2379KB  49.7MB/s   00:00    
sftp> put /tmp/grouper.installer-2.4.0.tar.gz

  6. Test an install

    [mchyzer@i2midev6 grouperInstaller]$ wget https://software.internet2.edu/grouper/release/2.4.0/grouperInstaller.jar
[mchyzer@i2midev6 grouperInstaller]$ java -jar grouperInstaller.jar
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