Just a selection of smaller changes this week, here are the details…

PHP

There is a new PHP_CONTRIB_MODULE macro for Ubuntu which can be used to simplify the addition of extra PHP module packages. Typically for a PHP module there will be 2 packages, one with the major version embedded into the name, e.g. php-example and php8.1-example. This macro simplifies the management of the packages and can be used like this:

PHP_CONTRIB_MODULE(yaml,2.2.2+2.1.0+2.0.4+1.3.2-5)

Note that it is still necessary to specify the version, since it’s not a core module the version is not predictable. That means it will still need updating for each new platform but the macro name acts as a useful marker for which we can easily search when porting.

Firefox

The non-snapd version of Firefox for Ubuntu Jammy has been updated to 114.0.1

DICE login screen

The background image for DICE desktops using Ubuntu Jammy has been changed so that it is easy to spot the platform version.

DICE PXE

The default PXE menu item for DICE servers using Ubuntu Jammy is now jammyserial. This means they behave the same way as for SL7 and Focal.

DICE KVM Service

The kvm_el2u script, which is used to update a KVM guest XML before migration to Ubuntu, has been modified so that the VMs can be migrated to a KVM server running Ubuntu Jammy. This involved changing the disk type from file to block.

Software Changes

On Ubuntu Focal the LCFG_OPTIONS_DEBOOTSTRAP option for the debootstrap package has a new dependency on the distro-info package.

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 – 19/06/2023 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0