There are a lot of changes this week, the majority of which are related to either the new Ubuntu 22.04 platform or the tidying out of old SL7 minor releases. Here are all the notable changes…

Ubuntu 22.04

More packages have been added to support Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).

A selection of core LCFG components have been updated to support the new platform, there are no functional changes.

SL7

Lots more old lists of packages for minor releases earlier than SL7.9 have been removed.

Network VLANs

On Ubuntu, the LCFG_NETWORK_ADD_VLAN macro now explicitly has the IP address for the interface disabled to avoid the potential for confusion. This is the most likely configuration for situations such as KVM servers.

PHP modules

On Ubuntu the PHP_CORE_MODULE macro now includes both the generic and the release-specific packages for a core module (e.g. php-foo and php7.4-foo packages). That supports both Focal and Jammy which will make future upgrades easier.

FAI setup-storage

The latest version (6.0) of the setup-storage utility from the FAI project is now being tested, this should give us the ability to select individual partitions which are to be mounted by UUID. Previously this could only be enabled/disabled for all partitions in a disk. See the FAI NEWS for all the changes.

Software

There are some new software options available for Ubuntu:

• LCFG_OPTIONS_PYTHON_REQUESTS – Python 3 requests module, for making HTTP requests
• LCFG_OPTIONS_PYTHON_BS – Python 3 beautiful soup module, for parsing HTML and XML documents

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 – 20/02/2023 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0