This was a fairly quiet week, the new Ubuntu installer is settling down nicely with just a few fixes for minor issues discovered during testing. Here are the highlights…

fstab component

Further improvements have been made to the new fstab component for Ubuntu. The support for additional entries (i.e. those added using the fstab.entries resource) is now working correctly. This means it is possible to configure network partitions that should be mounted without having to create systemd mount service files. Also, when encrypted partitions are enabled the crypttab file will now be installed correctly. At this stage encryption of partitions is still not fully supported, only very simple configurations are known to work.

Ubuntu Installer

The new installer now supports specifying a web proxy service for fetching packages during the install. This is compatible with the legacy installer, it can be enabled by specifying the LCFG_INSTALL_PACKAGE_PROXY macro.

A missing import of the timezone module in the Python code for the new LCFG isotools was fixed.

DICE Kernel

Ubuntu systems following the develop release now default to using the Hardware Enablement Kernel (HWE), this is expected to become the default for all Ubuntu systems in January 2023.

Snap

As we do not use Snaps on DICE Ubuntu the snap package has been completely removed, this avoids any potential security risks.

mutt mail client

The mutt mail client for Ubuntu Focal has been updated to a local build of the latest version (2.2.6-1.inf) from Ubuntu Kinetic. This is a major update, in particular it adds support for OAuth2, see the release notes for full details of the changes.

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 – 05/12/2022 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0