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 1.8.1p Update

On 2008-08-25, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1p.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1p

1. Backported a change to vdt-update-certs from VDT 1.10.1g: The CA certificate updater (vdt-update-certs) can now be configured to fetch CA certificates from other locations. This is to prepare for the OSG GOC hosting a CA certificate distribution. (VDT Ticket 3733)

Updating to VDT 1.8.1p

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1p was released on 2008-08-25, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1p.

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 CA Certificates Updater

Do this step if and only if your installation includes the CA Certificate Update (look for the $VDT_LOCATION/vdt/sbin/vdt-update-certs program).

pacman -update CA-Certificates-Updater