perfsonar development work

[Chris Welti <>]

I'm just trying to upgrade my MDM 3.0 installation to the 3.1 beta and
as far I can read from the instructions, it seems that I need to uninstall 
all the previously installed packages (I guess using apt-get remove, but that 
is not explained anywhere) and re-install.
Some questions about this:

1) why isn't it possible to just do an automated upgrade with apt, so that it 
will uninstall previous verisons and get the new ones? I thought that was the 
whole point of using packages.

2) It seems that MDM 3.1 is using tomcat 5.5 instead of tomcat6, can you 
confirm that? (at least that's what the admin guide suggests)
   I think it's rather strange to downgrade for an upgrade :)

3) The upgrade instructions from MDM3.1 are really vage. example from the 
admin guide for the LS: pg. 16:
   1. Copy the configuration files to a save location
   There is no details at all which configurations and where they are located.

   2. Uninstall 3.0
   How exactly should that be done? (apt-get remove?) what package names?

   3. Uninstall perfSONAR Tomcat
   How exactly? (apt-get remove?) what package names?
 

4) There really should be a mailing list for the beta-test of the new 
release, I find it strange to report problems directly to the dev list (I am 
subscribed here, but as I'm not a dev, I do usually not track what's going on 
here).
Maybe there already is one?

Cheers,
Chris