Upgrading to TinyOS 1.1.x CVS Snapshots

Note: While minor releases deliver TinyOS additions and improvements to the community more quickly, they do so with less testing. If your environment requires stability, consider using the previous major release (TinyOS 1.1.0) or, at least, testing your applications carefully with the new release before migrating wholesale to a 1.1.x CVS snapshot.

To install a TinyOS 1.1.x snapshot, you must first have installed TinyOS 1.1.0. If you have not installed TinyOS 1.1.0, please see the TinyOS download page .

You need not install any previously released 1.1.x snapshots. That is, if you have 1.1.0 installed on your machine, you can jump right to installing 1.1.6 rather than installing 1.1.1... up to 1.1.6. Each 1.1.x CVS snapshot supercedes previous 1.1.x CVS snapshot releases.

WINDOWS INSTALLATION (Win 2K and XP)

If you already have TinyOS 1.1.0 installed, upgrading to TinyOS 1.1.x consists of three steps:

Save your previous work. We recommend making a tarball of your entire TinyOS-1.x directory and saving it someplace.
Download the most recent 1.1.x rpm: tinyos-1.1.6May2004cvs-1.cygwin.noarch.rpm
Install. As Administrator in a cygwin shell do
"rpm --force --ignoreos -Uvh tinyos-1.1.6May2004cvs-1.cygwin.noarch.rpm" in the directory where you saved the rpm. This will take a while (the tinyos package installation includes compiling the java code). TinyOS is installed in /opt/tinyos-1.x.
You're done! Check the documentation in /opt/tinyos-1.x/doc/index.html for more information. See Installing and Updating Packages if you want to install any optional packages.

LINUX INSTALLATION (Redhat 9):

If you already have TinyOS 1.1.0 installed, upgrading to TinyOS 1.1.x consists of three steps:

Save your previous work. We recommend making a tarball of your entire tinyos-1.x directory and saving it someplace.
Download the latest 1.1.x rpm tinyos-1.1.6May2004cvs-1.noarch.rpm
Install. As root in linux install the 1.1.6 rpm with

rpm -Uvh --prefix TINYOSDIR tinyos-1.1.1Nov2003cvs-1.noarch.rpm
cd TINYOSDIR; chown -R USER.GROUP tinyos-1.x

This will install TinyOS in TINYOSDIR/tinyos-1.x), for user USER (with group GROUP). Installing this rpm will take a while as the java code will be compiled.
Note that this only allows one TinyOS source tree per machine, see the directions for using a CVS-based tree if you need several distinct source trees.
You're done! Check the documentation in /opt/tinyos-1.x/doc/index.html for more information. See Installing and Updating Packages if you want to install further packages.

INSTALLING AND UPDATING PACKAGES

The http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/tinyos/linux and http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/dist-1.1.0/tinyos/windows directories contain a number of optional packages you can install if you wish. Most packages in those directories were released along with TinyOS 1.1.0, but will work with 1.1.x snapshots. The task-tinydb package has released new minor versions since 1.1.0. Just download the appropriate rpms, and install them with rpm -ivh <rpm file name> (first installation) or rpm -Uvh <rpm file name> (upgrade).