[erlang-questions] Release upgrade of an app without a top supervisor

[Roberto Ostinelli]

Thank you Ulf.
Anything I can do with an already running system, that obviously doesn't
have that PR in? The only application using setup is, as you have guessed,
exometer_core.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:

> It’s true that setup didn’t play well with the release handler [blush].
>
> That was addressed in the PR you mention.
>
> The start_setup option was added mainly because some applications (not
> least exometer) use setup simply to expand and read environment variables,
> and therefore do not require setup to be started.
>
> Off the top of my head, I can recall the following reasons to start setup
> at all:
>
> - When using it for installation, setup generates a boot script that loads
> all required apps and sets the code path, then starts setup. Thus, you can
> fire up a node where only setup is running, but all code and environment
> data are available. Setup then finds environment variables identifying code
> hooks to run in different phases of the installation. A corresponding
> process can be used for upgrades.
>
> - When making use of setup’s home(), data_dir() and log_dir(), i.e.
> locations where applications can safely store data and logs. During
> startup, setup will verify that those directories exist, creating them if
> necessary. This behavior can be disabled with the env variable -setup
> verify_directories true | false.
>
> - You could actually run code hooks even during normal startup. Whether or
> not that’s a good idea is perhaps up for debate. It is possible, though.
>
> Predecessors of setup have done more during startup, including reading the
> boot script and preparing to respond to various configuration queries. But
> setup currently does little at startup, so most people might prefer it not
> to start at all. Most functions  - e.g. expanding environment variables or
> upgrading applications on the fly - are usable even when setup isn’t
> running.
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
>
> On 16 Feb 2016, at 12:27, Roberto Ostinelli <roberto@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> I found an old PR of Ulf here:
> https://github.com/uwiger/setup/pull/23
>
> However I don't understand how to use the start_setup option. If any kind
> soul can help me out it would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> r.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Roberto Ostinelli <roberto@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I'm building a release upgrade however I'm encountering an error during
>> the release install:
>>
>> 1> release_handler:install_release("1.5.0").
>> <0.1497.0>: reason: {'EXIT',{timeout,{sys,get_status,[<0.1497.0>]}}}
>> 11:58:30.647 [error] release_handler: cannot find top supervisor for
>> application setup
>>
>> It looks like the application setup [1] does not have a top supervisor,
>> hence the install fails.
>>
>> The app setup itself has not been upgraded, it's the same app; however,
>> it is packaged as 1.5.0 in comparison to the 1.4.6 currently running in
>> production.
>>
>> Is there any way I can go around this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> r.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/uwiger/setup
>>
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