Prerequisites:

• Get a user account on geonode.capra.opengeo.org with root access
• Get the deployment script. I put it in

      <my home dir>/deployment
  

  You can get it by cloning the git repository here:

      ssh://geonode.capra.opengeo.org/git/deployment
  

• Make sure your install profile (deploy.local.sh) has the correct configuration

To update the live site:

• Install a fresh version of GeoNode following the standard instructions in the README. See  http://github.com/geonode/geonode

• With the virtualenv activated, run paver make_release

• Note the file shared/GeoNode-1.0.1-yyyy-mm--dd.tar.gz That's the release bundle.

• Get that onto the live site server. I do scp GeoNode-1.0.1-2010-06-25.tar.gz <your name>@geonode.capra.opengeo.org:

• Run the deployment script

  cd deployment
  sudo bash deploy.sh ../GeoNode-1.0.1-yyyy-mm-dd.tar.gz
  

• Go to  http://geonode.capra.opengeo.org and test