Updating software component versions
Several components of the end-to-end WRF-based containerized system still undergo regular updates and public releases to the community (WPS, WRF, MET, METviewer), while others are frozen (GSI and UPP for WRF). If you would like to change the version of a component defined in the code base you have pulled from the NWP container project GitHub repository you will need to change the Dockerfile for that component in the source code.
Go to the wps_wrf directory:
Edit the Dockerfile to update the version number for WRF and WPS on lines 9 and 10. For example:
ENV WPS_VERSION 4.3
Once the version has been updated, follow the instructions for option #2 to build the dtcenter/wps_wrf image from scratch using the appropriate version number in the image name.
Go to the MET directory:
Edit the Dockerfile to update the version number for MET on line 8. For example:
Once the version has been updated, follow the instructions for option #2 to build the dtcenter/nwp-container-met image from scratch using the appropriate version number in the image name.
Go to the METviewer directory:
Edit the Dockerfile to update the version number for METviewer on line 8. The versions of METcalcpy (Python version of statistics calculation) and METplotpy (packages for plotting in METplus) may also be updated on lines 9 and 10. For example:
ENV METCALCPY_GIT_NAME v1.0.0
ENV METPLOTPY_GIT_NAME v1.0.0
Once the version has been updated, follow the instructions for option #2 to build the dtcenter/nwp-container-metviewer image from scratch using the appropriate version number in the image name.
