This feature allows the Spooler to deploy different Polyspace installations to a client machine. This can be used to install different versions or an upgraded version of Polyspace. To do so, run the following steps:
NOTE: This process can only be employed on Windows or Unix/Linux machines.
NOTE: This feature has been deprecated since R2009b.
Until R2009a, to allow the installations of both, you must make a separate .tar archive for each Operating System type.
1) Create a .tar archive of the installation CD
Linux/Unix installs:
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If you are using Unix/Linux, you can use the tar command to generate a .tar file that contains the entire CD location. If the CD is mounted in the location
/media/Polyspace, an example command would be the following:
%%%BEGIN COMMAND%%%
tar -cvf PolySpace_CD.tar /media/PolySpace/*
%%%END COMMAND%%%
Windows installs:
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For a Windows installation .tar file, you will need to first modify the install script as the Spooler launches the file install.sh to begin the installlation.
Since this is Unix script, you must modify this file to launch the Windows installer (setup.exe). Thus the install.sh should be modified to be the following:
#!/bin/sh
./setup.exe
Once complete, you can make the .tar archive of the CD. For a Windows machine, you will generally need a 3rd party product to generate the .tar archive. You can also use the Cygwin installed with Polyspace to generate the archive using the tar command (above).
2) Place the .tar file(s) on the Polyspace Server
Once you have a .tar file of the installation CD, place the file(s) in the following location on the Polyspace server machine:
C:\PolySpace\PolySpace_RLDatas\upgrades (Windows)
/var/PolySpace/upgrades (Unix/Linux)
3) Initiating the installation through the spooler:
To initiate the install, launch the Polyspace Spooler, select the Operations menu and choose "Upgrade Polyspace product". The Spooler will prompt you to choose
the version (archive) to install, and will download the file from the server. It will then uncompress the archive and launch the file install.sh, to start the installation
process.
