notes.md

Reltool breaks

It seems like reltool generated releases are not working out of the box. It seems to be related to the paths in .script are relative to the root dir of the client vm. When rewritten[1] it seems to work.

[1] Fixing bootscripts (validate by checking erl_prim_loader:get_path())

sed -i 's/\$ROOT/\/tmp\/boottest\/_rel/g' _rel/releases/myapp-0.0.1/myapp.script
erl -eval 'systools:script2boot("_rel/releases/myapp-0.0.1/myapp").'

Generating & loading archives

# Generate release and deploy to boot server
relx
ln -s _rel myapp-0.0.1
zip -r myapp-0.0.1.ez myapp-0.0.1
mkdir -p /tmp/tiberius/dist
cp myapp-0.0.1.ez /tmp/tiberius/dist
cd /tmp/tiberius
erl -id bootserver -name bootserver -run erl_boot_server start 127.0.0.1 

# Load remote release
erl -id myapp -name myapp -loader inet -hosts 127.0.0.1 -boot dist/myapp-0.0.1.ez/myapp-0.0.1/releases/myapp-0.0.1/myapp 

Problems with starting release

If using reltool based release, the application will not start automatically. This is due to a lacking {apply,{application,start_boot,[myapp,permanent]}} argument in the boot file (relx fucked up?). Alternativly, a it can be fixed by calling application:start/1 manualy.