Weekly Changes – 22/08/2022
A fairly busy week with a wide range of fixes and minor improvements, in particular there is a continuing focus on support for running Ubuntu servers. Here are all the details…
Go language
The Go language packages for Ubuntu have moved from lcfg_ubu2004_golang.pkgs to the common lcfg_ubu2004_options.pkgs package list. The packages can be included in a profile by including the lcfg/options/golang.h header, any profiles already using that header will not notice any change. For DICE profiles, the dice/options/golang.h header also now supports installing packages for version 1.16. That can be enabled by defining either of the DICE_OPTIONS_GOLANG_116 or DICE_OPTIONS_GOLANG_LATEST macros before including the header.
Nvidia driver packages
On Ubuntu there is now support for the 515 series nvidia driver packages. They can be included by enabling the defining the VIDEO_NVIDIA_SERIES package option to be 515.
Samba and winbind
On Ubuntu the LCFG_OPTIONS_SAMBA package option now includes the winbind package, that makes it compatible with SL7. See bug#1313 for more details. Thanks to Matthew Richardson for reporting the issue.
PostgreSQL
There are security updates for supported versions of PostgreSQL – 11.17, 12.12, 13.8, 14.5 – see the announcement for full details. PostgreSQL versions 12 and 14 are now supported on Ubuntu, let us know how you get on.
There is also a fix for an incorrect default path for the pgdata directory which was introduced in the previous stable release.
MariaDB and MySQL
For compatibility, systemd aliases are now provided for mysql.service and mysqld.service which refer to the new mariadb.service. This fixes a boot-time issue with starting MariaDB. See bug#1312 for details. Thanks to Kenny MacDonald for reporting the issue and suggesting a solution.
Hardware Monitoring
The LCFG hwmon component has been improved to ensure that it checks the status of all RAID controllers, not just the first one. This fixes bug#1316 and bug#1317
Network component
The LCFG network component has had a minor update on Ubuntu to improve the output from the nagios passive monitoring script.
DNS component
The LCFG DNS component has been updated on SL7 so the same version is used on both platforms. Along with the changes needed for the Ubuntu platform this adds support for the allow-transfer option.
NTP component
The LCFG NTP component has been updated on SL7 so the same version is used on both platforms. Note that the component now manages the contents of the sysconfig configuration file which is used by the ntpd service
Kernel
The SL7 INF_TEST kernel has been updated to version 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.
Ubuntu installer
A bug has been fixed in the way the Ubuntu installer handles disks with the partition size set to free (i.e. use all remaining available space). See bug#1309 for full details. Thanks to Matthew Richardson for reporting the issue and suggesting a suitable solution.
Ubuntu desktop packages
The ubuntu-release-upgrader-core package has been moved from the standard desktop package group into the optional LCFG_DESKTOP_UPDATABLE package group. This package is not required and has recently resulted in the message-of-the-day unhelpfully encouraging our users to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).
Changes to headers and package lists
Members of the Informatics Computing team can browse all the changes to the headers and package lists.
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