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Re: libravatar system upgrade

 

Again, kudos to you clime++ for running the upgrade / aligning with Fedora
ppl to make sure we have some "remote hands" available should it be
necessary.

Oliver

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:29 PM clime <clime7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So it didn't go completely smoothly (python3.9 -> python3.10 upgrade
> broke libravatar virtualenv, postgresql required postgresql-setup
> --upgrade, pg_hba.conf recreation needed afterwards, temporal django
> downgrade needed to version 3) but we made it work eventually.
>
> Next time, preparation of the image in advance probably combined with
> switching to more LTS-based distro might be a good way to go.
>
> Best regards
> clime
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 17:10, clime <clime7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > There will be a bit of late system upgrade (f33->f35) tomorrow around
> > 13:00 UTC. We don't currently have an optimal way to do it. Normally
> > one would upload a pretested VM image and a switch would be done by
> > changing the DNS address to a newly spawned image while the other is
> > put into read-only mode. We will do the upgrade online this time while
> > some folks (mobrien) from Fedora with access to the AWS console will
> > be watching if anything goes wrong and there is e.g. no ssh access.
> > There will probably therefore be some down-time (a couple of minutes?)
> > with this method.
> >
> > Perhaps we can figure out a better method for future updates.
> >
> > Hopefully everything goes smoothly tomorrow...
> >
> > Best regards
> > clime
>
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