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Note: This version of the VDT (1.8.1) is supported, but is not our latest stable release. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

VDT 1.8.1c Update

On 2007-11-07, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1c.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1c

  1. Updated the basic VDT environment settings so that it no longer includes Pacman's Python directory in PYTHONPATH. (When you source the setup files, it still contains Pacman. this is a convenience so that you do not have to source both Pacman's setup file and the VDT's setup file.) (VDT Ticket 3081)
  2. Updated Verify-GIP-For-CEMon to make it execute correctly. (VDT Ticket 3077)
  3. Put the SRM V2 client into the PATH. (VDT Ticket 3079)
  4. Fixed two permissions problems with Gratia Services. There is no mechanism to get this fix with an update: it requires a fresh installation. Fortunately, it's easy to change if you like, see the ticket for details. (VDT Ticket 3085)
  5. Fixed problem with installation of Unsup-Dccp on some platforms. No update is available for this because it fixes a problem at installation time. (VDT Ticket 3091)
  6. New or updated documentation:

Updating to VDT 1.8.1c

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1c was released on 2007-XX-XX, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1c.

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 the 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!

1. Updating the VDT Environment

pacman -update VDT-Environment

2. Updating Verify-GIP-For-CEMon

pacman -update Verify-GIP-For-CEMon

3. Updating the SRM v2 Client 

pacman -update SRM-V2-Client