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 1.8.1q Update

On 2008-09-09, the VDT team announced the release of VDT 1.8.1q.

Changes to VDT 1.8.1q

Note: This is a mandatory update if you use vdt-update-certs.

On September 8, 2008, the VDT changed how we distribute certificate authority certificates in VDT 1.10.1 and later (more information). This also has an impact on VDT 1.8.1 installations which are using the vdt-update-certs program (installed in the CA-Certificates-Updater package). If you are using this means to update your CA Certificates, it is essential that you perform this update to continue receiving the latest CA Certificate packages.

Updating to VDT 1.8.1q

If you installed VDT 1.8.1 after VDT 1.8.1q was released on 2008-09-09, you do not need to do any of these update operations because you will have 1.8.1q.

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

pacman -update CA-Certificates-Updater

To ensure that vdt-update-certs is running, after the update, do the following steps:

vdt/setup/configure_ca_cert_updater --server y
vdt-control --on vdt-update-certs

Note: After updating CA-Certificates-Updater, see this page to help choose a CA Certificate distribution.