No major changes this week, some improvements to hardware support with SL7 and a variety of small changes for Ubuntu. Here’s the full summary…

SL7 install kernel

The kernel used in the SL7 installer for booting via either PXE or from an ISO has been updated to the latest from SL7.9 – 3.10.0_1160.15.2.el7. This provides support for newer hardware, in particular some nvme devices. The PXE service will need to be updated to use this new kernel and associated installroot after the stable release is updated.

nsu

We are slowly working on a project to completely replace nsu with ksu. This week sees a few preparatory changes which are required before it can be removed from the default SL7 environment. These changes will allow it to be added back to individual LCFG profiles where necessary. Note that we have never supported nsu on Ubuntu.

wallet server

More software dependencies have been added for the wallet service on Ubuntu, that should be everything needed to resolve bug#1273.

SL7 nvidia driver

The nvidia driver on SL7 has been updated to 460.56.

Systemd and user units

The systemd component on Ubuntu has now gained resources for user-domain services and targets. This is part of the introduction of this new feature first mentioned a few weeks ago – 1st March 2021. Currently the component ignores these new resources, a future release will add support for actually generating the configuration files.

squid caching

The LCFG rpmaccel component schema has gained some new resources which make it more useful as a general squid component (it’s becoming more misnamed all the time…). In particular there is a new extra_opts tag list with associated extra_opt_name and extra_opt_value sub-resources. This makes it possible to specify any additional squid configuration options which are not already explicitly supported via LCFG resources. The generated configuration has also gained more comments to make it clearer which bits come from LCFG resources. The templates to support these new resources have not yet been shipped so setting those resources will not yet have any effect.

LCFG minimal mode

The LCFG minimal mode now also includes the inifile component schema and default resources.

Ancient Configuration

For tidiness some ancient configuration for the long-unsupported Solaris platform has been removed.

New Perl package options

Ubuntu has gained various new Perl package options:

• LCFG_OPTIONS_PERL_SQL_TRANSLATOR – CGI support

This can be enabled by adding the option name to the profile.pkgcppopts resource, for example:

!profile.pkgcppopts mADD(LCFG_OPTIONS_PERL_SQL_TRANSLATOR)

Weekly Changes – 22/03/2021 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0