patching a tools release

 We modify tools releases all of the time, if you make modifications to your tools - it is generally best to edit the par file, as opposed to hacking into the weblogic files after you've layed the tools release down.  Why?  Because you are going to forget that you've made changes and deploy over the top - I guarantee you!

So, The parfile (as was explained about 8 years ago in this blog), is made up of the following structures:

The following is a linux script that tears down all of the zip files and then builds them back up - pausing in between

You do not need to use the entire script, but it does tell you exactly what you need to do to change things and packs up the tools so that you can deploy it.

Upload the file that this creates (as a .par) and ensure that while the script waits for you, you edit

scf-manifest.xml

Remember that it is the first line that you see in server manager, so rename the description to include what you have done!  Then you'll see this in server manager. 

<scf-manifest targetType="webserver" version="9.2.4.3" componentName="EnterpriseOne HTML Server" description="EnterpriseOne HTML Server 9.2.4.3 04-07-2020_10_22" minimumAgentLevel="112">^M

Back to my script:

I've left some extra stuff in this script for you.  It's handy for how it patches files with sed and using the input from other files.  You may want to do similar things for your patching requirements.

remember parameter 1 is the complete name and path to the toolsreleasefile.par  the second parameter can be anything, but it's going to wait for you to enter a key before it packs everything back up.

You could add your logo copies in here, your colour changes if they are more complex than the UDC in the new tools...  You can do any of your paper fixes too.  Therefore the tools in SM will have EVERYTHING and no more hacking the owl_deploy and stage dirs.

PS.  I just had to do an edit because of the shape of the par files once I was done.  It's all tested and working now.

if [ $# -ne 2 && $# -ne 1 ]

then

  print "USAGE $0 toolsrelease [confirm]"

  exit 1

else

  TOOLS=$1

  if [ $# -eq 2 ]

  then

    WAIT=1

  fi

fi

tmpDir=/tmp/tools$$

mkdir $tmpDir

if [ $? -eq 0 ]

  then

    unzip $TOOLS -d $tmpDir

    echo "tools found in " $tmpDir

else

  echo "could not create dir:" $tmpDir

fi

currDir=`pwd`

unzip $tmpDir/webclient.ear -d $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir

unzip $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war -d $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir

#we have everything exploded - now we need to patch, but let's remove the zip files

rm $tmpDir/webclient.ear

rm $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war

# strange

# send complete img and share dirs

rm -rf $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share

rm -rf $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/img

unzip /home/shannon/Documents/img.zip -d $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir

unzip /home/shannon/Documents/share.zip -d  $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir

#okay, now we are in a position to patch and then use the recompress script.

patchMaster=/home/shannon/Documents

cp $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4login.jsp $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4loginbackup.jsp

cp $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4balogout.jsp $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4balogoutbackup.jsp

#now patch - you don't need this for this blog, but the sed

#commands are pretty RAD

sed -i -e '/^<\/HEAD>.*/r /home/shannon/Documents/html4login_append.jsp' $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4login.jsp

sed -i -e '/.*<!-- Display an informative message when the login screen is due.*/r /home/shannon/Documents/html4login_append2.jsp' $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4login.jsp

sed -i '/^<%@ page.*/r /home/shannon/Documents/html4balogin_append.jsp' $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4balogout.jsp

sed -i '/^framebusting.*/r /home/shannon/Documents/html4balogin_append2.jsp' $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4balogout.jsp

diff $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4login.jsp $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4loginbackup.jsp

diff $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4balogout.jsp $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir/share/html4balogoutbackup.jsp

if [ $WAIT -eq 1 ]

  then

    read  -n 1 -p "Do All your Manual patching! Enter Key When done:" mainmenuinput

fi

#now zip

cd $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir

zip -r  $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war ./*

cd $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir

rm -rf $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir/webclient.war.dir

zip -r  $tmpDir/webclient.ear ./*

rm -rf $tmpDir/webclient.ear.dir

cd $tmpDir

zip -r $currDir/$TOOLS.new ./*

rm -rf $tmpDir

cd $currDir