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Federico Jeanne, modified 6 Years ago.

Update the patching tool with LCS

New Member Posts: 5 Join Date: 4/11/17 Recent Posts
Hello everybody,
I'm doing some research on the whole patching process and I'm interested in using LCS to take care of this since it seems to simplify the process. There's one thing I can't wrap my head around, though: who takes care of updating the patching tool? I mean, it seems to me that the patching tool is only being used by LCS (via the LCS agent) but it's not being updated, am I right?
If this is so then how can we be sure that the currently installed patching tool will be able to install future fixpacks or hotfixes?

Any information on this would be really appreciated!

Thank you!
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Christoph Rabel, modified 6 Years ago.

RE: Update the patching tool with LCS

Liferay Legend Posts: 1554 Join Date: 9/24/09 Recent Posts
You need to update the patching tool manually.

If it is too old, it tells you that the patching tool needs to be updated and the current patch cannot be installed with it. Just download a new version of the patching tool and replace the old one with it. (I usually unzip it and copy & overwrite it to the old location)
Federico Jeanne, modified 6 Years ago.

RE: Update the patching tool with LCS

New Member Posts: 5 Join Date: 4/11/17 Recent Posts
Hi Christoph, thanks for your answer.

Is there any other way to do it? Sadly the manual update is not an option for me, I need a way to do it without manually accessing the server. Is there maybe some marketplace application that can take care of this or something similar?

Thank you.
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Christoph Rabel, modified 6 Years ago.

RE: Update the patching tool with LCS

Liferay Legend Posts: 1554 Join Date: 9/24/09 Recent Posts
Well, your situation is pretty uncommon. You could open a support ticket and ask Liferay if there are any plans. I can't really help you here, I always patch Liferay from the command line.

Maybe the filesystem access portlet from David Nebinger could help you. I have only read his blog, but it should allow you to replace files on the harddisk. (Of course, hardening Liferay for security might prevent you to do that)

https://github.com/dnebing/filesystem-access
https://web.liferay.com/de/web/user.26526/blog/-/blogs/liferay-7-development-part-1