Mostly minor changes this week but note there is likely to be a big enhancement to the fstab component next week. Here are the details of all the notable changes…

accessconf component

The LCFG component that can be used to manage access.conf style files for PAM authorization now reports when any user, group or netgroup does not exist. This is only flagged as a warning since sometimes the lookup failure could be due to a temporary issue (i.e. unable to contact an LDAP server), it does not affect the generated contents of the files.

PostgreSQL

The lcfg/options/postgresql-16.h header now supports an POSTGRESQL_16_DEVEL macro which can be defined to have all the devel packages and dependencies installed on a system.

LCFG Client

The development version of the LCFG client has been tweaked to ensure that a failure to lookup component status using dbus is only ever a warning and not an error. This avoids problems at install time where dbus is unlikely to be functional. Note that those interested in trying the new version of the client can install it using the lcfg/options/lcfg-client-testing.h header.

fstab

The new version of the LCFG fstab component has been undergoing more testing. We hope to deploy this soon, see the blog post for full details of the changes.

Installer

The Ubuntu installer now contains the Debian keyring files so that it’s possible to install Debian systems using the same ISO.

Software

There are 2 new software package options available for Ubuntu:

• LCFG_OPTIONS_APACHE_SHIBBOLETH – Apache module for the Shibboleth single sign-on log-in system
• LCFG_OPTIONS_APACHE_OPENIDC – Apache module for the OpenIDC access management software.

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 – 02/09/2024 / LCFG Project by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0