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 1.8.1j Update

On 2008-02-22, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1j.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1j

1. dCache has been upgraded from 1.2.5 to 1.8.0. dCache is not provided via a Pacman package but as RPMs. Details on installing dCache are available
2. Bestman, SRM-V2-Client, and SRM-V2-Tester have been upgraded from 2.2.0.7 to 2.2.0.8 (VDT ticket 3319)
3. The PPDG Certificate Scripts were updated from version 2.5 to version 2.6. (VDT ticket 3315)

Updating to VDT 1.8.1j

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1j was released on 2008-02-22, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1j.

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 PPDG Certificate Scripts

pacman -update PPDG-Cert-Scripts

2. 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