Brian Stansberry [
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"Single Installation Patching"
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Jeff Mesnil wrote:
My main concern was if we had to generate patches from sources instead of using a binary.
As long as patches are generated from binaries, we won't have checksum issues.
This could be a "nice to have" feature but I'd prefer to postpone that when
we have deeper insights on how patches are generated and used instead of introducing more
complexity from the start.
Fair enough; I have no argument with that philosophy at all.
I think a lot of one off patches will be generated from source though. The support people
will checkout the code for the version being patched, make whatever changes, and then
build. The result of that build will be the --updated-dist used by the patch-gen tool. I
could be wrong though; they may build jars and then copy them into a pristine dist and use
that as their --updated-dist. Or they could skip the copy, use the dist produced by the
build, but use the specified-content approach in the patch-config.xml.
We'll see!
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