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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Upgrading legacy packages with patch Post 303043799 by Neo on Friday 7th of February 2020 04:23:05 AM
Old 02-07-2020
Normally if we are making upgrades to mission critical applications in 100s of servers in a large organization with a risk management team we should notify them if if we plan any upgrades which may cause an outage.

You should test in a test bed, make a plan, identify the risks and notify your risk management team.

Upgrading the core "mission critical" application on 200-300 web servers requires planning and team work.

What happens if you make a mistake and bring down the application(s)? Do you want your organization to be caught off guard when customers are calling in, angry their service is down?

You have described a major infrastructure upgrade. You certainly do not want to upgrade with YUM over a manually installed configuration until you have completed tested this idea in a test bed, insure you have backups of each application and database before hand, etc. In other words, you need a plan in coordination with your IT risk management team, customer service, etc.

This is how we work as IT professionals.
 

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Test::Git(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    Test::Git(3pm)

NAME
Test::Git - Helper functions for test scripts using Git SYNOPSIS
use Test::More; use Test::Git; # check there is a git binary available, or skip all has_git(); # check there is a minimum version of git available, or skip all has_git( '1.6.5' ); # check the git we want to test has a minimum version, or skip all has_git( '1.6.5', { git => '/path/to/alternative/git' } ); # normal plan plan tests => 2; # create a new, empty repository in a temporary location # and return a Git::Repository object my $r = test_repository(); # run some tests on the repository ... DESCRIPTION
"Test::Git" provides a number of helpful functions when running test scripts that require the creation and management of a Git repository. EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
has_git( $version, \%options ) Checks if there is a git binary available, or skips all tests. If the optional $version argument is provided, also checks if the available git binary has a version greater or equal to $version. This function also accepts an option hash of the same kind as those accepted by "Git::Repository" and "Git::Repository::Command". This function must be called before "plan()", as it performs a skip_all if requirements are not met. test_repository( %options ) Creates a new empty git repository in a temporary location, and returns a "Git::Repository" object pointing to it. This function takes options as a hash. Each key will influence a different part of the creation process. This call is the equivalent of the default call with no options: test_repository( temp => [ CLEANUP => 1 ], # File::Temp::tempdir options init => [], # git init options git => {}, # Git::Repository options ); To create a bare repository: test_repository( init => [ '--bare' ] ); To leave the repository in its location after the end of the test: test_repository( temp => [ CLEANUP => 0 ] ); AUTHOR
Philippe Bruhat (BooK), "<book at cpan.org>" COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010-2011 Philippe Bruhat (BooK), all rights reserved. LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2011-12-28 Test::Git(3pm)
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