Chapter 2. Upgrading to a Pre-Patched Distribution
What is a pre-patched distribution?
For version 6.2.0 of JBoss Fuse, pre-patched distributions are made available for the first time. A pre-patched distribution is an installation of the 6.2.0 GA version which has had the specified patch applied to it. This pre-patched installation is then re-packaged as an archive and made available for download.
For example, the following pre-patched distribution, which incorporates patch P1, is currently available for download:
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Pre-patched 6.2.0 P1
Installing a pre-patched distribution
To install a pre-patched distribution, extract the downloaded archive file into a directory on your file system. The distribution is now ready for use as a standalone container (but not as a Fabric container—see the notes and limitations).
Important notes and limitations
The pre-patched distribution is not equivalent to a complete rebuild of the product. This has some important implications, as follows:
- A pre-patched distribution is intended primarily to be used as a standalone container (that is, non-Fabric).
- If you do create a fabric using the pre-patched distribution (for example, using
fabric:create), the Fabric container reverts to the unpatched, GA version of the product. - From version 6.2.1 of JBoss Fuse, the patching process will be improved so that pre-patched distributions can also be used to create properly patched Fabric containers.
