Weekly Changes – 03/10/2022
Another week where most of the changes are related either to the organisational changes in Informatics or the new Ubuntu installer. Here are all the details…
Unit Changes
There continues to be lots of minor changes to the LCFG headers to reflect the demise of the Infrastructure Unit and the change of name for the Managed Platforms Unit which has become the Systems Unit.
LaTeX installations
All Ubuntu desktops which include the research-and-teaching-packages.h header will now have the FULL LaTeX installation, this will increase disk usage by approximately 5GB.
UEFI support
On Ubuntu systems which use UEFI the grub-efi-amd64 packages will now be installed instead of the grub-pc packages. This is controlled using new LCFG_BOOT_UEFI and LCFG_BOOT_LEGACY package list macros. We don’t expect this to have a noticeable impact on existing installations. We are currently in the process of testing new installbase headers and profiles that include EFI support at install time. Although not essential for the current Ubuntu installer, these will be needed by the new installer.
VirtualBox
The VirtualBox kernel module on Ubuntu has been updated to version 6.1.38. This should have happened last week which means there is currently a version mismatch in the stable release that causes problems for some VirtualBox features. It can be fixed with a version override like this:
!profile.pkgcppopts mADD(-DED_VBOX_VER=6.1.38)
NVIDIA driver
The 515.57 version of the NVIDIA module package is now available for SL7.
Spectre and Meltdown Checker
The spectre-meltdown-checker package has been updated from 0.34 to 0.45 (the latest upstream release). See the release notes for full details.
Rust language
The Rust packages in Ubuntu have been updated to 1.61
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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