How to update core plugins during `gerrit init --batch`?

[Steffen Gebert]

Hi,

I'm running `gerrit init --batch --install-plugin a --install-plugin b` for some of the core plugins during deployment.

What I noticed is that existing plugins aren't updated then. The only countermeasure that I was able to figure out is to run interactive site initialisation and acknowledge all warnings to overwrite the existing JARs.

Is there any way to batch-update also the plugins?

Yours
Steffen

[Matthias Sohn]

you may consider to use auto-site-initialization

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-auto-site-initialization.html

-Matthias 

[Steffen Gebert]

Hi Matthias,

thanks for your response. Doesn't this essentially just call `gerrit init` automatically?

I'm talking about updates of an existing installation. The gerrit.war is deployed through chef and then `gerrit init` is called (which obviously could be done using automatic site initialization, too.

But are you sure that this will update the plugins? I'd expect that it executes the same code as `gerrit init`.

Yours
Steffen

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[Matthias Sohn]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Steffen Gebert <ste...@steffen-gebert.de> wrote:

Hi Matthias,

thanks for your response. Doesn't this essentially just call `gerrit init` automatically?

I'm talking about updates of an existing installation. The gerrit.war is deployed through chef and then `gerrit init` is called (which obviously could be done using automatic site initialization, too.

But are you sure that this will update the plugins? I'd expect that it executes the same code as `gerrit init`.

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-auto-site-initialization.html#_gerrit_configuration

says:

 

"If the 'gerrit.install_plugins' property is not defined then all packaged plugins will be installed. If it is defined then it is parsed as a comma separated list of plugin names to install. If the value is an empty string then no plugin will be installed."

so it seems you can configure that.

-Matthias

[Steffen Gebert]

Yes, Matthias, and thanks for your response. Please forgive me that I don't just give what you suggest a try (have no tomcat setup running).

But I'm explicitly talking about plugin _updates_ during site init. The usual `java -jar gerrit.war init` defaults to _not_ overwrite existing plugin JARs. (one has to explicitly type `Y` to overwrite). So batch init sees to just use these defaults.

Steffen

[David Ostrovsky]

Am Sonntag, 15. November 2015 03:02:33 UTC-8 schrieb Steffen Gebert:

Yes, Matthias, and thanks for your response. Please forgive me that I don't just give what you suggest a try (have no tomcat setup running).

But I'm explicitly talking about plugin _updates_ during site init. The usual `java -jar gerrit.war init` defaults to _not_ overwrite existing plugin JARs. (one has to explicitly type `Y` to overwrite).

This is broken and was fixed in: [1].

* [1] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/71645

[Steffen Gebert]

Ah, thanks David! I'm having a look at this.