Note: This version of the VDT (1.8.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 1.10.1.

VDT 1.8.0a Update

On 2007-08-07, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.0a.

Changes to VDT 1.8.0a

• Fixed a bug that could cause installation to fail when installing Apache if the length of the pathname for $VDT_LOCATION was too long (VDT Ticket 2860)
• Updated Bestman, SRM-V2-Client, and SRM-V2-Tester to version 2.2.0.2 (VDT Ticket 2861)
• Updated the Gratia Probes to version 0.26.2b-1
• Updated the Gratia services (Gratia-Services and Gratia-Reporting) to version 0.26.2 (VDT Ticket 2862)
• Added a man page for vdt-update-certs (VDT Ticket 2802)
• Fixed a bug in how we install Pegasus (the version of Pegasus did not change)
• Added some new documentation, including a more detailed supported platform list that includes Pacman names, how to install on an unsupported platform, how to install 32-bit software on a 64-bit platform, and information about VDT log rotation

Updating to VDT 1.8.0a

If you installed VDT 1.8.0 after VDT 1.8.0a was released on 2007-08-07, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.0a.

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. For example, only OSG sites are using Gratia, and sites rarely need to update more than one of the Gratia probes. You can see what packages have been installed with:

pacman -l -d 1

Common update directions

Before you do the update directions that follow, please run to following commands. They apply for all of the updates.

cp -pr $VDT_LOCATION BACKUP-LOCATION
cd $VDT_LOCATION
. setup.sh

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

Updating Bestman

pacman -update Bestman

Updating SRM-V2-Client

pacman -update SRM-V2-Client

Updating SRM-V2-Tester

pacman -update SRM-V2-Tester

Updating Gratia Condor Probe

cp gratia/probe/condor/ProbeConfig .
pacman -update Gratia-Condor-Probe
mv ProbeConfig gratia/probe/condor/

Updating Gratia-PBS-Probe

cp gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/ProbeConfig .
cp gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/urCollector.conf .
pacman -update Gratia-PBS-Probe
mv ProbeConfig gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/
mv urCollector.conf gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/ 

Updating Gratia-LSF-Probe

cp gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/ProbeConfig .
cp gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/urCollector.conf .
pacman -update Gratia-LSF-Probe
mv ProbeConfig gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/
mv urCollector.conf gratia/probe/pbs-lsf/

Updating Gratia-SGE-Probe

cp gratia/probe/sge/ProbeConfig .
pacman -update Gratia-SGE-Probe
mv ProbeConfig gratia/probe/sge/

Updating Gratia services

There are two packages that were updated (Gratia-Reporting and Gratia-Services), but one command will update both of them for you.

pacman -update Gratia-Reporting

Updating CA-Certificates-Update (for vdt-update-certs man page)

pacman -update CA-Certificates-Updater

Updating Pegasus

pacman -update Pegasus