[Girder-users] Upgrading Girder and Girder Version

[Zach Mullen]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Brian E Chapman <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>
wrote:

> Zach,
>
> As an update, your instructions worked great except I needed to install
> git in order for the "girder-install web” step to work.
>

Thanks, good to know.


>
> A related question, is there a process to do a batch thumbnail generation
> for images that are in the repository?
>

Not currently. It wouldn't be too difficult to write this in a plugin;
you'd want to do a find() on the file model for anything that is an image
mime type or has certain file extensions, and then run the thumbnailing on
it.


> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
>
> From: Zach Mullen <zach.mullen at kitware.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 11:14 AM
> To: Brian Chapman <brian.chapman at utah.edu>
> Cc: "girder-users at public.kitware.com" <girder-users at public.kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [Girder-users] Upgrading Girder and Girder Version
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> 1. The version will show up in the web UI on the front page, near the
> bottom of the text. For a programmatic way to query it, you can send a GET
> request to /api/v1/system/version, which contains the API version as well
> as the git sha1 hash.
>
> 2. The upgrade process, as of right now, is very simple. It sounds like
> you're using pip, so you can simply run `pip install -U girder` and then
> run `girder-install web` afterward; that should rebuild everything. The web
> install step requires a somewhat new version of nodejs, so you might have
> to update that as well if yours is too old. The log files and
> girder.local.cfg file will be stored within the docker container, all other
> system metadata lives in the mongo database. If you are using a filesystem
> assetstore, the files in those assetstores will also be stored locally
> within the container filesystem.
>
> 3. The container hasn't been tested with all the plugins; installing PIL
> with all the required system libraries is not done in that image. Prior to
> running `pip install Pillow`, you should install the following:
>
>     apt-get install libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev
>
>
> HTH,
>
>
>
> Zach Mullen
> Kitware, Inc.
> 919-869-8858
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Brian E Chapman <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I’ve got a version of Girder running in a Docker container that I built
>> several months ago using girder:latest. MongoDB is running in a separate
>> linked Docker container. Three questions:
>>
>>
>>    1. I cannot see what version of Girder I’m running, either through
>>    the web interface or within the container (using pip freeze or importing
>>    girder and looking for the _version__ attribute. How do I determine
>>    the version of girder I’m running.
>>    2. What is the appropriate way to upgrade girder? I don’t see
>>    anything on the admin page that indicates how to upgrade (e.g. Like in
>>    Midas). I’m tempted to create a new docker container. What data are
>>    actually stored in the docker container vs MongoDB? Just the log files?
>>    3. I turned on the thumbnail generation plugin (version 0.1.0). When
>>    I went to generate a thumbnail, I get a PIL not installed message. When I
>>    connect to the container and try to install PIL I get a "jpeg is required
>>    unless explicitly disabled…” Has the container been tested with all the
>>    PlugIns? Curious of how much back tracking I need to do with the
>>    installation.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
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