Note: This version of the VDT (1.10.1) is supported, but is not our latest stable release. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.10.1u Update

On 2009-03-04, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.10.1u.

Changes to VDT 1.10.1u

The VDT build of cURL was tweaked to (a) eliminate references to /home/condor, and (b) refer to (operating) system-wide CA certificate bundles where available (or to no default bundle when not). The cURL version number is unchanged. (VDT ticket 3940)
A VDT support script that helps when a package is removed or updated was changed to handle a rare case that causes certain updates to fail. There is no need to update this script explicitly, because it will be updated automatically prior to any other update. (VDT ticket 4897)

Updating to VDT 1.10.1u

If you installed VDT 1.10.1 after VDT 1.10.1u was released on 2009-03-04, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.10.1u.

The best way to do the update is to update the individual packages that have changed. To be clear, we do not recommend using pacman -update without specifying specific package names. Also note that you only need to update packages if you installed them. You can see what packages have been installed with:

pacman -lc

Pre-update directions

Before you do any of the update directions that follow, please run the following commands to stop services and take a backup of your installation. This applies for all of the updates.

cd $VDT_LOCATION
. setup.sh
vdt-control --off
cp -pr $VDT_LOCATION BACKUP-LOCATION

The copy command makes a complete backup of your VDT installation, in case something goes wrong. Do not skip this step!

Updating CA-Certificates

Note: If you have not yet updated your CA-Certificates package (released on September 11th in VDT 1.10.1i), some of the following updates may automatically include this update for you. After this update, you will need to do a one-time configuration to re-install the certificates on your system. Many of the components installed by the VDT will not work until the certificates are re-installed. See the full instructions.

1. Updating cURL

Do this step only if your installation includes the Curl package (look for the $VDT_LOCATION/curl directory).

pacman -update Curl

Post-update directions

If you are finished applying all lettered updates, do not forget to restart services, typically using vdt-control. For example, to turn on all services:

vdt-control --on