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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 2.0.0.

VDT 1.8.0d Update

On 2007-08-15, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.0d.

Changes to VDT 1.8.0d

• In some circumstances, the VDT intsallation would ask a question multiple times instead of remember the answer. This has been fixed. (VDT Ticket 2904)
• The Condor-Devel package installs Condor 6.9.3, a development version of Condor. So far, this version is only used with the OSG-Site-Validate package. When the Condor-Devel package was installed, environment setup information was put into setup.sh (or setup.csh), which could override either a previously existing Condor installation, or the Condor installed by the Condor package. This has been changed to no longer setup any environment variables. (VDT Ticket 2896)
  
  In order to work with this version of Condor, source the appropriate file:

  $VDT_LOCATION/vdt/etc/condor-devel-env.sh
   or
  $VDT_LOCATION/vdt/etc/condor-devel-env.csh
  

Updating to VDT 1.8.0d

If you installed VDT 1.8.0 after VDT 1.8.0d was released on 2007-08-15, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.0d.

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 -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 OSG-Site-Validate

Updating this package will update Condor-Devel and VDT-Questions-Base for you. After updating, the old Condor-Devel environment setup will still be in your environment. Start a fresh shell to get an updated environment that doesn't contain pointers to condor-devel.

  pacman -update OSG-Site-Validate
  vdt/setup/configure_osg-site-validate
  # Before doing anything else, start a new shell in order to clear your environment of Condor-Devel relics.

Updating VDT-Questions-Base

You do not need to run this if you updated OSG-Site-Validate.

  pacman -update VDT-Questions-Base