This release mainly features various Ubuntu development work, in particular, a couple of new useful features have been added to the Ubuntu apt component. Here are all the details…

Kernel

The Ubuntu INF kernel has been updated to 5.4.0-125.141

apt component

The LCFG apt component has a new addkey method which will add a new key to the trusted keyring for the apt package manager. The key file may be specified as a file or URL, for example:

om apt addkey https://deb.pkgs.inf.ed.ac.uk/keys/Informatics-Package-Service.gpg

It can also take an alternative root directory as a second argument which makes this useful for working with chroot installs. For example:

om apt addkey https://deb.pkgs.inf.ed.ac.uk/keys/Informatics-Package-Service.gpg /srv/chroot/ubu2004

There is also a new bootstrap method which can be used to create a new chroot with the debootstrap command. It gets the repository URL, suite, components and keyring information from the resources for the distro tag. You just need to specify the directory location, for example:

om apt bootstrap /srv/chroot/ubu2004

resolv.conf

The LCFG resolvconf component has been tweaked to ensure that the generated /etc/resolv.conf file is always publically readable.

PHP

The LCFG_OPTIONS_PHP package option (as used in the lcfg/options/php.h header) now includes the php-cgi package in Ubuntu.

Package Options

A number of Ubuntu package options (in the lcfg_ubu2004_options.pkgs package list) have been refactored for tidiness to extract the dependency on gnupg. This has caused some churn due to the reordering of options.

Changes to headers and package lists

Members of the Informatics Computing team can browse all the changes to the headers and package lists.

Weekly Changes – 12/09/2022 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0