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<header>
<copyright>
<year>1997</year>
<year>2007</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
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</legalnotice>
<title>relup</title>
<prepared></prepared>
<docno></docno>
<date></date>
<rev></rev>
</header>
<file>relup</file>
<filesummary>Release upgrade file</filesummary>
<description>
<p>The <em>release upgrade file</em> describes how a release is
upgraded in a running system.</p>
<p>This file is automatically generated by
<c>systools:make_relup/3,4</c>, using a release resource file
(<c>.rel</c>), application resource files (<c>.app</c>) and
application upgrade files (<c>.appup</c>) as input.</p>
</description>
<section>
<title>FILE SYNTAX</title>
<p>In a target system, the release upgrade file should be located in
the <c>OTP_ROOT/erts-EVsn/Vsn</c> directory.</p>
<p>The <c>relup</c> file contains one single Erlang term, which
defines the instructions used to upgrade the release. The file has
the following syntax:</p>
<code type="none">
{Vsn,
[{UpFromVsn, Descr, Instructions}, ...],
[{DownToVsn, Descr, Instructions}, ...]}.
</code>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
<p><c>Vsn = string()</c> is the current version of the release.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>UpFromVsn = string()</c> is an earlier version of the release
to upgrade from.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Descr = term()</c> is a user defined parameter passed
from the <c>systools:make_relup/3,4</c> function. It will
be used in the return value of
<c>release_handler:install_release/1,2</c>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>Instructions</c> is a list of low-level release upgrade
instructions, see <c>appup(4)</c>.</p>
<p>It consists of the release upgrade instructions from
the respective application upgrade files (high-level instructions
are translated to low-level instructions), in the same order
as in the start script.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p><c>DownToVsn = string()</c> is an earlier version of the release
to downgrade to.</p>
</item>
</list>
<p>When upgrading from <c>UpFromVsn</c> with
<c>release_handler:install_release/1,2</c>, there does not have to be
an exact match of versions, but <c>UpFromVsn</c> can be a sub-string
of the current release version.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<p>app(4), appup(4), rel(4), release_handler(3), systools(3)</p>
</section>
</fileref>
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