Software Life Cycle: 1. Updating The Development Server

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This is a quick description of how to update the development server with a new release of the database. In general, the development process involves mirroring a large number of files from Sanger, unpacking, and in many cases, massaging into a format suitable for driving the website.

Development Server

The current development server is

 brie3: brie3.cshl.org / dev.wormbase.org

Update Pipeline Code

The update pipeline code is available in the WormBase admin module:

 brie3> svn co svn+ssh://brie3.cshl.org/usr/local/svn/admin

Change into the development directory:

 brie3> cd admin/update/development 

The contents are:

  logs/      -- the logs directory for each step/update
  README.txt -- nothing 
  steps/     -- Perl scripts that launch each step
  Update.pm  -- the top level module for the update process
  Update/    -- Perl modules corresponding to each step
  updatelog.conf  -- a configuration file for the update process
  update.sh  -- master script that fires off each step of the pipeline
  util/       -- various helper scripts for the update process

A single shell script fires off all steps of the process.

 brie3> ./update.sh

The steps it performs are:

  • Purge disk space
  • Create necessary directories
  • Mirror and unpack ACeDB from Sanger
  • Mirror ontology files from Sanger
  • Compile ontology resources for the site
  • Create BLAST databases for available species
  • Create BLAT database for available species
  • Create ePCR databases for select species
  • Load genomic GFF databases for available species
  • Build and load GFF patches
  • Convert GFF3 into GFF3
  • Create a GBrowse-driven genetic map
  • Create a GBrowse-drive physical map
  • Create dump files of common datasets
  • Load the CLUSTALW database
  • Mirror annotation files from Sanger to the FTP site

Each step is described below.

Update Steps

Purge Disk Space

Remove obsolete files from the (staging) FTP site. These have already been mirrored to the production FTP site and do not need to be maintained on the development server.

 Usage : ./steps/purge_disk_space.pl 

= Create necessary directories

Create staging directories for the update process.

 Usage : ./steps/create_directories.pl {WSRELEASE}

Mirror and unpack ACeDB from Sanger =

Mirror and unpack the new release of the database from Sanger. Add in appropriate control files for the new acedb database: serverpasswrd.wrm, passwrd.wrm, serverconfig.wrm pulled from the checked out development source (/usr/local/wormbase/wspec).

Files will be mirrored and unpacked to /usr/local. Please make sure that there is sufficient space in this directory! You will most likely need approximately 25 GB of disk space. Possible places to free up disk space:

 /usr/local/mysq/data
 /usr/local/acedb/tmp
 ~{you}/mp3s
 Usage : ./steps/create_directories.pl {WSRELEASE}

Note: This can take a *long* time. You might to run this in a screen:

 brie3> screen
 brie3> ./steps/mirror_acedb.pl WS198
 brie3> ^D
 (to resume)
 brie3> screen -r   

When complete, check to make sure that the following directory and symlink exist:

 brie3> /usr/local/acedb/elegans -> elegans_{WSRELEASE} 
  • Mirror ontology files from Sanger
  • Compile ontology resources for the site
  • Create BLAST databases for available species
  • Create BLAT database for available species
  • Create ePCR databases for select species
  • Load genomic GFF databases for available species
  • Build and load GFF patches
  • Convert GFF3 into GFF3
  • Create a GBrowse-driven genetic map
  • Create a GBrowse-drive physical map
  • Create dump files of common datasets
  • Load the CLUSTALW database
  • Mirror annotation files from Sanger to the FTP site