How to Upgrade Supervisord

In Ubuntu (I don’t know how in other distros) there is very old version of supervisord in repo. This version has few very annoying bugs, and I can’t live with them ;)

So, below is easy path to upgrade supervisord from system one to newest version in few simple steps:

• Stop service:

  service supervisor stop
  

• Backup current configuration:

  mkdir ~/supervisor
  cp -r /etc/supervisor ~/etc-supervisor
  cp /etc/default/supervisor ~/supervisor/etc-default-supervisor
  cp /etc/init.d/supervisor ~/supervisor/etc-init.d-supervisor
  

• Remove current installation:

  apt-get purge supervisor
  rm -fr /etc/supervisor
  

• Install new supervisor:

  pip install supervisor
  

• Restore configs:

  cp ~/supervisor/etc-default-supervisor /etc/default/supervisor
  cp ~/supervisor/etc-init.d-supervisor /etc/init.d/supervisor
  cp -r ~/etc-supervisor /etc/supervisor
  ln -s /etc/supervisor/supervisor.conf /etc/supervisor.conf
  

• Start new supervisor:

  service supervisor start
  

• Verify:

  supervisorctl
  

• Set to run at startup:

  update-rc.d supervisor defaults