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VDT 2.0.0p0 Release

On 21-May-2009, the VDT team announced the release of initial release of VDT 2.0.0. (Also called VDT 2.0.0p0.) (Note: It was not widely announced on this date, because it first was sent to the OSG Validation Testbed for testing.)

Highlights of changes since 1.10.1

• We have added support for Debian 5, x86 and x86-64.
• We now build MyProxy against VOMS.
  • Note: MyProxy is not linked against VOMS on Mac OS
  • Note: The MyProxy executables and some flavors of the libraries are built against VOMS, but the following library flavors are not built against VOMS:
    • 32-bit: gcc32 and gcc32pthr
    • 64-bit: gcc64 and gcc64pthr
• We have removed MySQL 4. We have moved the software that was using MySQL 4 to MySQL 5.0: (VDT ticket 5256)
  • Globus-RLS (VDT ticket 3753)
  • Globus-RFT
  • GUMS
  • VOMRS
• Globus-RLS is not currently supported on IA-64 systems.
• We have added a new tool, vdt-ca-manage, to help simplify managing the CA certificates. This tool will be used to setup the certificates after installation. For more info, see the man page. Please note: Unlike VDT 1.10.1, you will not normally need to edit vdt-update-certs.conf or run vdt-setup-ca-certificates after you do an installation: you just run vdt-ca-manage.
• After you install the VDT with Pacman, you must finish the installation with the new vdt-post-install program, located in $VDT_LOCATION/bin/vdt-post-install. We are gradually moving some of the more complicated portions of the installation process out of the Pacman installation. This gives us two benefits:
  1. If the post-installation fails, it doesn't damage Pacman's database about the installation.
  2. It will simplify our transition to support native packages (RPMs and debs)
• Almost all of the questions that the VDT used to ask when doing an installation have been removed. Most of them were questions about whether or not a service should be enabled. Now the question isn't asked (it's often confusing at installation time), and all services are installed as "disabled", and can be enabled as desired with:

  vdt-control --enable SERVICE-NAME

  The VDT will now disregard pre-answered questions in the vdt-questions.sh file.
  This change was made because it significantly simplified the packaging of the VDT and, in some circumstances, will make it much easier for us to deliver updates to software.
  There is still one VDT question that asks you if you accept the licenses for the software in the VDT. How to pre-answer the licenses question.

New Software Since 1.10.1

• One-Way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP, One-Way Ping) (VDT ticket 4400)
• Bandwidth Test Controller (BWCTL) (VDT ticket 4400)
• Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) (VDT ticket 4400)

Bug Fixes Since 1.10.1

• Fixed PRIMA to properly point at the CA certificates when it is installed by itself (VDT ticket 5204)
• Changed the MySQL & Condor init script's sequence order to be earlier, so that they start up before Globus GRAM 4. (VDT ticket 5014)
• Changed the VDT init scripts' stop sequence order from 99 (which wasn't a good idea) to 10. (VDT ticket 5374)

New Platform Support

• Debian 5.0, x86 and x86_64

Platforms Dropped from Support

• Debian 3.1

Other Changes since 1.10.1

• We now require the use of Pacman 3.28.
• You can now install just the server or client portions of MyProxy. In the past you had to install all of MyProxy. The server package is called MyProxy-Server while the client is called MyProxy-Client.
• We have removed jClarens from the VDT.
• We have removed Java 1.4 and Tomcat 5 from the VDT because jClarens was the only component that still depended on them (note: the VDT still includes Java 5 and Java 6, as well as Tomcat 5.5)
• We no longer support the VDT_PRETEND_32 environment variable. Instead, on x86_64 systems, use the new Pacman feature 3.28, '-pretend-arch i686'. Support for 32-on-x86_64 is no longer tested. More info
• We no longer recognize the VDT_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED environment variable. When installing on a platform other than those we support, try using the pacman '-pretend-platform' flag. More info
• Made major improvements to the size and structure of our Pacman files that allow for faster installation times and better error messages when Pacman encounters a problem.
• The VDT now has the ability to add support for new platforms without causing other installation to believe that they need to update their software. This is why we require Pacman 3.28.
• All packages can now check for updates with vdt-version.
• We now preserve VDTSETUP_CONDOR_LOCATION and VDTSETUP_CONDOR_CONFIG (if they are set at installation time) so that it is not necessary to re-set them before running "pacman -update" commands.
• Added a test in our test suite for the Procd.
• Man pages are now created for the VDT configuration scripts in the vdt/setup directory. If you have installed Apache, try 'man configure_apache' for an example.
• We have removed the perl wrapper from all platforms except Scientific Linux 3.
  We have reduced the set of Perl modules that we include in the distribution.
• We now support Java 6 on IA-64 platforms.
• We have fixed many of the problems on SuSE-9/ia64