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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 1.8.1m Update

On 2008-04-24, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1m.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1m

  1. In Dccp, removed DCACHE_IO_TUNNEL from the environment, because it broke several sites.
  2. dCache has been updated to 2.1.7 (Based on dCache 1.8.0-14) (VDT Ticket 3480)
  3. Updated the GIP (just the configure_gip script). For two reasons:
    1. Documentation fix
    2. Always write out a service file (bug existed where an admin could configure a SE, and then re-configure without it, but the SE would still be published).
    (VDT Ticket 3431) This is not a critical update, but good for fresh installations.
  4. PyGlobus now only sets one PYTHONPATH (lib or lib64), not both. (VDT Ticket 3299)
  5. Globus-SGE-Setup and Globus-WS-SGE-Setup were updated with a fix for a memory leak.

Updating to VDT 1.8.1m

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1m was released on 2008-04-24, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1m.

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!

Updating Dccp

pacman -update Unsup-Dccp

Updating Generic Information Provider

pacman -update Configure-GIP

Updating PyGlobus

pacman -update PyGlobus

Updating SGE job manager

pacman -update Globus-SGE-Setup
pacman -update Globus-WS-SGE-Setup