Note: This version of the VDT (1.8.1) 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 1.8.1i Update

On 2008-02-15, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1i.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1i

1. SRM-V1-Client has been upgraded from 1.25 to 1.8.0-4 (VDT ticket 3209)
   Please note, this client is now named confusingly. The V1 portion of the name was intended to refer to the version of SRM that it can talk to, but with this update it can now talk to SRM V2.2 and earlier. We wanted to change the name of the package, but due to complications with how Pacman does updates, we left the name alone. A future release of the VDT will change the name of this package and the SRM-V2-Client to be more descriptive.
2. Dccp has been upgraded from 1.7.0-39 to 1.8.0-4 (VDT ticket 3212)
3. Bestman, SRM-V2-Client, and SRM-V2-Tester have been upgraded from 2.2.0.5 to 2.2.0.7 (VDT ticket 3252) (VDT ticket 3273)

Updating to VDT 1.8.1i

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1i was released on 2008-02-15, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1i.

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.

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!

1. Updating SRM-V1-Client

wget http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.8.1/fix-srm-filelist.sh
/bin/sh fix-srm-filelist.sh
rm fix-srm-filelist.sh
pacman -update SRM-V1-Client

2. Updating Unsup-Dccp

mv vdt/etc/package_data/Dccp.filelist vdt/etc/package_data/Unsup-Dccp.filelist
pacman -update Unsup-Dccp

3. Updating Bestman, SRM-V2-Client, and SRM-V2-Tester

To update Bestman:

pacman -update Bestman

To update SRM-V2-Client:

pacman -update SRM-V2-Client

To update SRM-V2-Tester:

pacman -update SRM-V2-Tester