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Sunday, October 2 2011

How to upgrade Jenkins on Mac OS X (daemon mode)

Jenkins, the continuous integration server, provides a nice package to run it on Mac OS X. It installs as a launch daemon and runs smoothly. But when a new version of Jenkins is available, there is no automatic upgrade feature. So here is how to upgrade this kind of installtion:

  • Download the latest war of Jenkins from the website
  • Stop the Jenkins daemon: in a Terminal window, type
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist
  • Copy the downloaded "war" from your download directory to the "/Applications/Jenkins/" folder.
  • Start the Jenkins daemon: in a Terminal window, type
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jenkins-ci.plist

Once Jenkins has restarted, you should have an up-to-date installation.

By letiemble - Java

Sunday, September 18 2011

Monobjc Continuous Integration

The upcoming version of Monobjc 4.0, will be able to run on Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 operating systems under both i386 and x86_64 architectures. For a complete coverage of this platforms and architectures, the goal is to have these three platforms readily available so non-regression and deployment testing occurs almost seamlessly.

Thanks to Parallels Desktop, I was able to quickly setup two virtual machines running respectively Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, on top of a Mac OS X 10.7 system. Then I setp up a Jenkins based continuous integration system driving all the platforms; non-regression testing can now be run on the three platforms easily.

Monobjc CI Infrastructure

By letiemble - Monobjc