perfsonar development work

[Chris Welti <>]

Candido Rodriguez Montes wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> I think I can answer some of your questions...
> 
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Chris Welti wrote:
> 
>> 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 :)
> 
> For both questions I can say that for MDM 3.0 we were using custom
> packages, even for Tomcat6, but for this new version we're trying to be
> more close to the specifications of the distributions. And this means
> that we have to use Tomcat 5.5 and we're not just upgrading some files:
> we have new packages with different names, version packages, etc. That's
> the reason we suggest to uninstall previous and to install the new one.
> The thing is for MDM 3.2 you'll just do an upgrade :-)

Sounds great, thanks :)
Regards,

Chris