I think you'd have to wrap it heavily to have a clean experience.
Consider that if the previous version of the app is running or somehow
there are files locked, the update would fail. A typical installer will
require a reboot and do post-reboot installation tasks then.
You also have to take care of non-copying tasks such as component
registration, invocation of nested installers, etc., no matter what kind
of installation technology.
Also, Subversion leaves you with all the .svn directories and extra
copies of files. You could use the Subversion working copy as a
separate storage (but then you would total >3 times the application tree
storage), or archive the .svn directories away when your installer isn't
running, but it would be something of a hack. You could also just get
fresh each time and then wipe out the .svn directories (or do an
equivalent svn export), but you wouldn't want to be running that every
day or anything.
I have to think there are better technologies available for solving this
kind of problem than a version control system. Given how many web-based
installers we all run that pull down software, I doubt they're all
in-house technologies.
That said, my company's equivalent involves plenty of in-house code.
You may find out that the actual file copying is only one little piece
of your problem though (as I think we did).
-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Hugh (hdmi) [mailto:HughMiller_at_chevron.com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:32 PM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Using svn as a distrbution deployment mechanism
Subversion seems to offer a nice mechanism for deploying an application
tree. The complete set of files could be distributed from the repository
to remote sites via checkout or export. Subversion also provides
potentially a very nice means for auditing and updating installations.
Would this be an approach to deployment that one could recommend ? Or
are there downsides and issues that would make this approach unviable ?
If so, could svn be made to work well for purposes like this ?
Many thanks,
-
>Hugh Miller
>e-mail: HughMiller_at_chevron.com
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