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["Sawyer, Mona Zarei" <>]

Any time we have a new source for the loader or need to provision into a 
different AD we need to update the properties files and for them to get into 
effect we need to rebuild.

Mona.
 
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 On Behalf Of Hyzer, Chris
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 2:25 PM
To: Petursson, Sigurdur 
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 Wessel, Keith 
<>;
 

Subject: RE: [grouper-users] RE: Patching and ant dist

Just curious, why do you need to rebuild?  The patches have the latest code 
in there.  If you are editing files and want to incorporate them then need to 
rebuild, but for hooks or plugins you can just make your own jar and not 
bother with rebuilding grouper.

With the one command to apply all patches we have tried to make it not very 
cumbersome.

If you don’t apply patches on top of a build then things could get messy if 
you are editing or downloading files on top of patches.  The patches make 
sure that the underlying files are not edited when they are applied.

Thanks
Chris

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 On Behalf Of Petursson, Sigurdur
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 12:06 PM
To: Wessel, Keith 
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Subject: Re: [grouper-users] RE: Patching and ant dist

We have been kicking the tires on Grouper for over a year now and this is the 
first time we are hearing about this. Re-build should of course not wipe out 
previously installed patches. Now, a separate function called factory reset 
would wipe out patches and configuration but a rebuild should simply rebuild 
with any code and patches in place.

This is particularly important with Grouper where the patching process is 
very cumbersome and somewhat flawed. I will surely look at the wiki and adopt 
the automation of patching.

I hope the Grouper team reconsiders the patching process and finds ways to 
improve, as well as the rebuild with respect to patching.

Thanks.

Sig

On 9/28/2017 1:36 PM, Wessel, Keith wrote:
> And thank YOU for the help on this one!
>
> keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hyzer, Chris 
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> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:28 PM
> To: Wessel, Keith 
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> Subject: RE: Patching and ant dist
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> I added a note on the wiki, thanks.  Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
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>  On Behalf Of Wessel, 
> Keith
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:46 AM
> To: 
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> Subject: [grouper-users] RE: Patching and ant dist
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> Thanks for that explanation, Sir. Yeah, we've all but fully automated 
> patching thanks to the script you posted to the wiki, and that should 
> help. We'll just keep that in mind when we rebuild. Perhaps there 
> should be a note on the Grouper patching instructions page on the wiki 
> mentioning that you must repatch after rebuilding? It should be common 
> sense, but it obviously wasn't to us. :)
>
> Looking forward to the Grouper workshop at TechEx so we can learn a few 
> more tidbits like this!
>
> Keith
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