grouperInstaller should keep track of where things are installed for patching later

----Original Message----
From: Michael R Gettes mrg30@psu.edu
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 3:39 PM
To: Peter St. Onge <pete.stonge@utoronto.ca>
Cc: Hyzer, Chris <mchyzer@isc.upenn.edu>; grouper-users@internet2.edu
Subject: Re: [grouper-users] question patching pspng

+2 - good idea Pete.

/mrg

> On Feb 8, 2017, at 3:37 PM, Peter St. Onge <pete.stonge@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> I've been bitten by this in the past as well. Since patch levels are
> already being recorded and referenced by the installer, am wondering if
> it might not be useful to persist installation info as well (where the
> various elements are installed etc) for later use by the installer. Not
> sure how hard that would be to implement tho.
>
> Best, – pete
>
> On 2017-02-08 03:09 PM, Hyzer, Chris wrote:
>> Its where the PSPNG is running from, where GSH is… probably the api
>> main directory..
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>> *From:*grouper-users-request@internet2.edu
>> grouper-users-request@internet2.edu *On Behalf Of *Jay Hoff
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:01 PM
>> To: grouper-users@internet2.edu
>> Subject: [grouper-users] question patching pspng
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
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>> I’m working on patching pspng, but I’m running into an issue with where
>> the pspng files are located. Specifically when I’m prompted to enter the
>> location for where grouper pspng is installed.
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>> ****snippet******
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>> Where is the grouper PSPNG installed?
>> /opt/local/grouper/grouper.pspng-2.3.0/dist
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>> Cant find Grouper PSPNG properties files or libs, looked in the
>> directory, /classes/ , /conf/ , /WEB-INF/classes/ , /lib/ ,
>> /WEB-INF/lib/ , /lib/grouper/ , /dist/lib/
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>> Where is the grouper PSPNG installed?
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>> *******end snippet********
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>> Any thoughts?
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>> Thanks much,
>>
>> Jay Hoff
>>
>> Penn State Systems Engineering
>>
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>
> –
> Peter St. Onge pete.stonge@utoronto.ca
> Information Security Architect (416)978-5030
> Business Continuity and Communications
> Information + Technology Services University of Toronto