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1. About the Altibase Package Installer#

This Altibase Package Installer is a Java-based installer that lets users easily install Altibase products such as the database server, client components, tools, and so forth.

When installing Altibase with the Altibase Package Installer, a home directory and APatch directory are generated.

Altibase Home Directory#

The Altibase home directory is the default directory wherein Altibase software is installed.

When you install Altibase with the Altibase Package Installer, a home directory (wherein Altibase products are installed) is generated. The Altibase home directory takes the following values by default

When installing Altibase Server Products:#

$HOME/altibase-server-<version>

When installing Altibase Client Products:#

$HOME/altibase-client-<version>


APatch Directory#

Information about Altibase products that were installed with the Altibase Package Installer is stored in the APatch directory, under the Altibase home directory.

Structure and Contents of the APatch Directory#

APatch is the name of the Altibase Package Installer directory and is located in the Altibase home directory

This directory contains files that store information about an installed product or a patch version:

  • patchinfo file
  • pkg_patch_<installation_version>.txt file
  • altibase_base_install.log file
  • Backup directory

patchinfo File#

This file contains:

  • Information about the base release 1version and the patch of the currently installed Altibase product.

  • Information about the environment (such as the OS, OS patch, C/C++ compiler, and Java compiler are built)

Example

$ cat patchinfo
PRODUCT_SIGNATURE=server-7.3.0.0.1-64-release
PATCH_VERSION=0_0_0_0

=======  OS INFO  =======
Linux rhel6-x64 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 1 01:33:01 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
=======  PATCH INFO  =======
2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64
=======  COMPILER INFO  =======
gcc version 4.6.3 (GCC)
glibc 2.12
=======  JAVA INFO  =======
java version "1.5.0_22"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_22-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.5.0_22-b03, mixed mode)

pkg_patch_x_x_x_x.txt File#

This file is automatically generated as pkg_patch_<patch_version>.txt whenever a product is patched. This file contains the revision number of the source code modified to create the patch.

The following example shows the contents of the patch directory after installing base release 7.3.0.0.0, and the contents of the APatch directory after installing patch 7.3.0.0.10.

Patch/APatch 디렉토리

$ ls
pkg_patch_0_0_0_0.txt

$ ls
pkg_patch_0_0_0_0.txt  pkg_patch_0_0_0_10.txt

$ cat pkg_patch_0_0_0_10.txt
Repository: /altidev4/tags/altibase_7_3_0_0_10_tag/
Revision: xxxxx
Last Changed Rev: xxxxx

altibase_base_install.log file#

All operations during the most recent installation are written to this file.

Backup Directory#

When installing a new patch, the Altibase Package Installer creates backups of the patched files to which the patch is applied and stored it in the $ALTIBASE_HOME/APatch directory. Within this directory, these are separated backup directories generated for each patch. These backup files are used to roll back the patch in the future.

In addition, executable files that are used to uninstall or rollback patches are installed in the $ALTIBASE_HOME/APatch directory when a product is installed or patched.

Note

HP platforms do not support automatic backups or rollbacks if the Package Installer is patched. Data and log files must be manually backup.

Note

Only files that are installed with the Package Installer are backedup to this backup directory; files that are generated after the product has been installed (such as data files and log files) are not backed up.

Below are the contents of the APatch directory after installing base release 7.3.0.0.0 and after installing patch 7.3.0.0.10.

APatch Directory

altibase_base_install.log     patchinfo
pkg_patch_0_0_0_0.txt         uninstall-base
  • uninstall-base: the executable file needed to uninstall the base release 7.3.0.0.0.
altibase_base_install.log     pkg_patch_0_0_0_10.txt
uninstall-p0_0_0_10           patchinfo
rollback-p0_0_0_10/           pkg_patch_0_0_0_0.txt
uninstall-base

  • uninstall-base: the executable file needed to uninstall the base release 7.3.0.0.0.

  • rollback-p0_0_0_10: the directory that contains backups of the files patched with 7.1.0.0.10.

  • uninstall-p0_0_0_10: the executable file needed to delete the patch 7.1.0.0.10 and rollback to the previous version. These files are stored in the rollback-p0_0_0_10 directory.

  1. Base Release: A complete package used for initial installation. ↩