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The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB. </legalnotice> <title>systools</title> <prepared></prepared> <docno></docno> <date></date> <rev></rev> </header> <module>systools</module> <modulesummary>A Set of Release Handling Tools.</modulesummary> <description> <p>This module contains functions to generate boot scripts (<c>.boot</c>, <c>.script</c>), release upgrade scripts (<c>relup</c>), and release packages.</p> </description> <funcs> <func> <name>make_relup(Name, UpFrom, DownTo) -> Result</name> <name>make_relup(Name, UpFrom, DownTo, [Opt]) -> Result</name> <fsummary>Generate a release upgrade file <c>relup</c>.</fsummary> <type> <v>Name = string()</v> <v>UpFrom = DownTo = [Name | {Name,Descr}]</v> <v> Descr = term()</v> <v>Opt = {path,[Dir]} | restart_emulator | silent | noexec | {outdir,Dir}</v> <v> Dir = string()</v> <v>Result = ok | error | {ok,Relup,Module,Warnings} | {error,Module,Error}</v> <v> Relup - see relup(4)</v> <v> Module = atom()</v> <v> Warnings = Error = term()</v> </type> <desc> <p>Generates a release upgrade file <c>relup</c> containing a script which describes how to upgrade the system from a number of previous releases, and how to downgrade to a number of previous releases. The script is used by <c>release_handler</c> when installing a new version of a release in run-time.</p> <p>By default, <c>relup</c> is placed in the current working directory. If the option <c>{outdir,Dir}</c> is provided, <c>relup</c> is placed in <c>Dir</c> instead.</p> <p>The release resource file <c>Name.rel</c> is compared with all release resource files <c>Name2.rel</c> specified in <c>UpFrom</c> and <c>DownTo</c>. For each such pair, it is deducted:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> <p>Which applications should be deleted, that is applications which are listed in <c>Name.rel</c> but not in <c>Name2.rel</c>.</p> </item> <item> <p>Which applications should be added, that is applications which are listed in <c>Name2.rel</c> but not in <c>Name.rel</c>.</p> </item> <item> <p>Which applications should be upgraded/downgraded, that is applications listed in both <c>Name.rel</c> and <c>Name2.rel</c>, but with different versions.</p> </item> <item> <p>If the emulator needs to be restarted after upgrading or downgrading, that is if the ERTS version differs between <c>Name.rel</c> and <c>Name2.rel</c>.</p> </item> </list> <p>Instructions for this are added to the <c>relup</c> script in the above order. Instructions for upgrading or downgrading between application versions are fetched from the relevant application upgrade files <c>App.appup</c>, sorted in the same order as when generating a boot script, see <c>make_script/1,2</c>. High-level instructions are translated into low-level instructions and the result is printed to <c>relup</c>.</p> <p>The optional <c>Descr</c> parameter is included as-is in the <c>relup</c> script, see <c>relup(4)</c>. Defaults to the empty list.</p> <p>All the files are searched for in the code path. It is assumed that the <c>.app</c> and <c>.appup</c> file for an application is located in the same directory.</p> <p>If the option <c>{path,[Dir]}</c> is provided, this path is appended to the current path. The wildcard <c>*</c> is expanded to all matching directories. Example: <c>lib/*/ebin</c>.</p> <p>If the <c>restart_emulator</c> option is supplied, a low-level instruction to restart the emulator is appended to the relup scripts. This ensures that a complete reboot of the system is done when the system is upgraded or downgraded.</p> <p>By default, errors and warnings are printed to tty and the function returns <c>ok</c> or <c>error</c>. If the option <c>silent</c> is provided, the function instead returns <c>{ok,Relup,Module,Warnings}</c> where <c>Relup</c> is the release upgrade script, or it returns <c>{error,Module,Error}</c>. Warnings and errors can be converted to strings by calling <c>Module:format_warning(Warnings)</c> or <c>Module:format_error(Error)</c>.</p> <p>If the option <c>noexec</c> is provided, the function returns the same values as for <c>silent</c> but no <c>relup</c> file is created.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name>make_script(Name) -> Result</name> <name>make_script(Name, [Opt]) -> Result</name> <fsummary>Generate a boot script <c>.script/.boot</c>.</fsummary> <type> <v>Name = string()</v> <v>Opt = no_module_tests | {path,[Dir]} | local | {variables,[Var]} | exref | {exref,[App]}] | silent | {outdir,Dir}</v> <v> Dir = string()</v> <v> Var = {VarName,Prefix}</v> <v> VarName = Prefix = string()</v> <v> App = atom()</v> <v>Result = ok | error | {ok,Module,Warnings} | {error,Module,Error}</v> <v> Module = atom()</v> <v> Warnings = Error = term()</v> </type> <desc> <p>Generates a boot script <c>Name.script</c> and its binary version, the boot file <c>Name.boot</c>. The boot file specifies which code should be loaded and which applications should be started when the Erlang runtime system is started. See <c>script(4)</c>.</p> <p>The release resource file <c>Name.rel</c> is read to find out which applications are included in the release. Then the relevant application resource files <c>App.app</c> are read to find out which modules should be loaded and if and how the application should be started. (Keys <c>modules</c> and <c>mod</c>, see <c>app(4)</c>).</p> <p>By default, the boot script and boot file are placed in the same directory as <c>Name.rel</c>. That is, in the current working directory unless <c>Name</c> contains a path. If the option <c>{outdir,Dir}</c> is provided, they are placed in <c>Dir</c> instead.</p> <p>The correctness of each application is checked:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> <p>The version of an application specified in the <c>.rel</c> file should be the same as the version specified in the <c>.app</c> file.</p> </item> <item> <p>There should be no undefined applications, that is, dependencies to applications which are not included in the release. (Key <c>applications</c> in <c>.app</c> file).</p> </item> <item> <p>There should be no circular dependencies among the applications.</p> </item> <item> <p>There should no duplicated modules, that is, modules with the same name but belonging to different applications.</p> </item> <item> <p>A warning is issued if the source code for a module is missing or newer than the object code. <br></br> If the <c>no_module_tests</c> option is specified, this check is omitted.</p> </item> </list> <p>The applications are sorted according to the dependencies between the applications. Where there are no dependencies, the order in the <c>.rel</c> file is kept.</p> <p>All files are searched for in the current path. It is assumed that the <c>.app</c> and <c>.beam</c> files for an application is located in the same directory. The <c>.erl</c> files are also assumed to be located in this directory, unless it is an <c>ebin</c> directory in which case they may be located in the corresponding <c>src</c> directory.</p> <p>If the option <c>{path,[Dir]}</c> is provided, this path is appended to the current path. A directory in the path can be given with a wildcard <c>*</c>, this is expanded to all matching directories. Example: <c>"lib/*/ebin"</c>.</p> <p>In the generated boot script all application directories are structured as <c>App-Vsn/ebin</c> and assumed to be located in <c>$ROOT/lib</c>, where <c>$ROOT</c> is the root directory of the installed release. If the <c>local</c> option is supplied, the actual directories where the applications were found are used instead. This is a useful way to test a generated boot script locally.</p> <p>The <c>variables</c> option can be used to specify an installation directory other than <c>$ROOT/lib</c> for some of the applications. If a variable <c>{VarName,Prefix}</c> is specified and an application is found in a directory <c>Prefix/Rest/App[-Vsn]/ebin</c>, this application will get the path <c>VarName/Rest/App-Vsn/ebin</c> in the boot script. If an application is found in a directory <c>Prefix/Rest</c>, the path will be <c>VarName/Rest/App-Vsn/ebin</c>. When starting Erlang, all variables <c>VarName</c> are given values using the <c>boot_var</c> command line flag.</p> <p>Example: If the option <c>{variables,[{"TEST","lib"}]}</c> is supplied, and <c>myapp.app</c> is found in <c>lib/myapp/ebin</c>, then the path to this application in the boot script will be <c>$TEST/myapp-1/ebin"</c>. If <c>myapp.app</c> is found in <c>lib/test</c>, then the path will be <c>$TEST/test/myapp-1/ebin</c>.</p> <p>The checks performed before the boot script is generated can be extended with some cross reference checks by specifying the <c>exref</c> option. These checks are performed with the Xref tool. All applications, or the applications specified with <c>{exref,[App]}</c>, are checked by Xref and warnings are generated for calls to undefined functions.</p> <p>By default, errors and warnings are printed to tty and the function returns <c>ok</c> or <c>error</c>. If the option <c>silent</c> is provided, the function instead returns <c>{ok,Module,Warnings}</c> or <c>{error,Module,Error}</c>. Warnings and errors can be converted to strings by calling <c>Module:format_warning(Warnings)</c> or <c>Module:format_error(Error)</c>.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name>make_tar(Name) -> Result</name> <name>make_tar(Name, [Opt]) -> Result</name> <fsummary>Create a release package.</fsummary> <type> <v>Name = string()</v> <v>Opt = {dirs,[IncDir]} | {path,[Dir]} | {variables,[Var]} | {var_tar,VarTar} | {erts,Dir} | no_module_tests | exref | {exref,[App]} | silent | {outdir,Dir}</v> <v> Dir = string()</v> <v> IncDir = src | include | atom()</v> <v> Var = {VarName,PreFix}</v> <v> VarName = Prefix = string()</v> <v> VarTar = include | ownfile | omit</v> <v> Machine = atom()</v> <v> App = atom()</v> <v>Result = ok | error | {ok,Module,Warnings} | {error,Module,Error}</v> <v> Module = atom()</v> <v> Warning = Error = term()</v> </type> <desc> <p>Creates a release package file <c>Name.tar.gz</c>. file. This file must be uncompressed and unpacked on the target system using the <c>release_handler</c>, before the new release can be installed.</p> <p>The release resource file <c>Name.rel</c> is read to find out which applications are included in the release. Then the relevant application resource files <c>App.app</c> are read to find out the version and modules of each application. (Keys <c>vsn</c> and <c>modules</c>, see <c>app(4)</c>).</p> <p>By default, the release package file is placed in the same directory as <c>Name.rel</c>. That is, in the current working directory unless <c>Name</c> contains a path. If the option <c>{outdir,Dir}</c> is provided, it is placed in <c>Dir</c> instead.</p> <p>By default, the release package contains the directories <c>lib/App-Vsn/ebin</c> and <c>lib/App-Vsn/priv</c> for each included application. If more directories, the option <c>dirs</c> is supplied. Example: <c>{dirs,[src,examples]}</c>.</p> <p>All these files are searched for in the current path. If the option <c>{path,[Dir]}</c> is provided, this path is appended to the current path. The wildcard <c>*</c> is expanded to all matching directories. Example: <c>"lib/*/ebin"</c>.</p> <p>The <c>variables</c> option can be used to specify an installation directory other than <c>lib</c> for some of the applications. If a variable <c>{VarName,Prefix}</c> is specified and an application is found in a directory <c>Prefix/Rest/App[-Vsn]/ebin</c>, this application will be packed into a separate <c>VarName.tar.gz</c> file as <c>Rest/App-Vsn/ebin</c>.</p> <p>Example: If the option <c>{variables,[{"TEST","lib"}]}</c> is supplied, and <c>myapp.app</c> is found in <c>lib/myapp-1/ebin</c>, the the application <c>myapp</c> is included in <c>TEST.tar.gz</c>:</p> <pre> % <input>tar tf TEST.tar</input> myapp-1/ebin/myapp.app ... </pre> <p>The <c>{var_tar,VarTar}</c> option can be used to specify if and where a separate package should be stored. In this option, <c>VarTar</c> is:</p> <list type="bulleted"> <item> <p><c>include</c>. Each separate (variable) package is included in the main <c>ReleaseName.tar.gz</c> file. This is the default.</p> </item> <item> <p><c>ownfile</c>. Each separate (variable) package is generated as separate files in the same directory as the <c>ReleaseName.tar.gz</c> file.</p> </item> <item> <p><c>omit</c>. No separate (variable) packages are generated and applications which are found underneath a variable directory are ignored.</p> </item> </list> <p>A directory called <c>releases</c> is also included in the release package, containing <c>Name.rel</c> and a subdirectory called <c>RelVsn</c>. <c>RelVsn</c> is the release version as specified in <c>Name.rel</c>.</p> <p><c>releases/RelVsn</c> contains the boot script <c>Name.boot</c> renamed to <c>start.boot</c> and, if found, the files <c>relup</c> and <c>sys.config</c>. These files are searched for in the same directory as <c>Name.rel</c>, in the current working directory, and in any directories specified using the <c>path</c> option.</p> <p>If the release package should contain a new Erlang runtime system, the <c>bin</c> directory of the specified runtime system <c>{erts,Dir}</c> is copied to <c>erts-ErtsVsn/bin</c>.</p> <p>All checks performed with the <c>make_script</c> function are performed before the release package is created. The <c>no_module_tests</c> and <c>exref</c> options are also valid here.</p> <p>The return value and the handling of errors and warnings are the same as described for <c>make_script</c> above.</p> </desc> </func> <func> <name>script2boot(File) -> ok | error</name> <fsummary>Generate a binary version of a boot script.</fsummary> <type> <v>File = string()</v> </type> <desc> <p>The Erlang runtime system requires that the contents of the script used to boot the system is a binary Erlang term. This function transforms the <c>File.script</c> boot script to a binary term which is stored in the file <c>File.boot</c>.</p> <p>A boot script generated using the <c>make_script</c> function is already transformed to the binary form.</p> </desc> </func> </funcs> <section> <title>SEE ALSO</title> <p>app(4), appup(4), erl(1), rel(4), release_handler(3), relup(4), script(4)</p> </section> </erlref>