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NAME¶
relup - Release upgrade fileDESCRIPTION¶
The release upgrade file describes how a release is upgraded in a running system.This file is automatically generated by systools:make_relup/3,4, using a release resource file (.rel), application resource files (.app), and application upgrade files (.appup) as input.
FILE SYNTAX¶
In a target system, the release upgrade file is to be located in directory $ROOT/releases/Vsn.The relup file contains one single Erlang term, which defines the instructions used to upgrade the release. The file has the following syntax:
{Vsn, [{UpFromVsn, Descr, Instructions}, ...], [{DownToVsn, Descr, Instructions}, ...]}.
- Vsn = string():
- Current release version.
- UpFromVsn = string():
- Earlier version of the release to upgrade from.
- Descr = term():
- A user-defined parameter passed from the function systools:make_relup/3,4. It is used in the return value of release_handler:install_release/1,2.
- Instructions:
- A list of low-level release upgrade instructions, see appup(5). 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.
- DownToVsn = string():
- Earlier version of the release to downgrade to.
SEE ALSO¶
app(5), appup(5), rel(5), release_handler(3erl), systools(3erl)sasl 3.0.2 | Ericsson AB |