Monthly Archives: March 2014

Mass change to specfiles

As announced a while ago to be able to build packages on EL7/F20 we needed to remove the build-requirement on the existence of the /etc/rpm/macros.cmake file. This requirement was only necessary on SL5 where we had CMake packages from two … Continue reading

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core-prereq but not lcfg-logserver

The dependencies for most of the “core” packages are now in the “core-prereq” section of lcfg_f20_lcfg.rpms. (Summary: lots of perl modules.) I got them by wiping and reinstalling my F20 VM with “Minimal Install”, adding the local yum repo definition, … Continue reading

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Package lists remade.

As threatened I’ve now remade the package lists, this time excluding the Fedora 20 Updates repository. I took the opportunity to change the composition of one or two lists. lcfg_f20_installbase.rpms As before this is based on the Minimal Install group. … Continue reading

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Two steps forward, one step back.

As hoped, today I got the F20 VM running updaterpms, using a list of packages obtained from the machine’s own LCFG profile. The updaterpms problem mentioned at the end of last week’s episode was easily solved by being reminded where … Continue reading

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Getting close

Today I got an F20 VM up on our networked KVM servers. (Until now I’ve been running F20 on VirtualBox on my laptop, which is great for me but not so good for others who want to follow along and … Continue reading

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Coming up …

The next step will be to get updaterpms to manage all of the RPMs on an F20 machine, using data from the machine’s LCFG profile, downloaded and interpreted by the LCFG client. I’ve already done much of the heavy lifting … Continue reading

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#pragma LCFG category “core”

The ‘core’ section of the as yet nonexistent lcfg_f20_lcfg.rpms list should now be complete, and here it is: lcfg-authorize-1.1.1-1/noarch /* MPU */ lcfg-client-3.1.3-1/noarch /* MPU */ perl-LCFG-Client-3.5.8-1/noarch /* MPU */ lcfg-file-1.2.0-1/noarch /* MPU */ lcfg-logserver-1.5.0-1/noarch /* MPU */ lcfg-ngeneric-1.4.2-1/noarch /* … Continue reading

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lcfg_f20_desktop.rpms

The latest package list for F20 is the desktop list. Here it is in the repository. I based it on Fedora 20’s “Basic Desktop” yum environment group. I’m not sure how good an idea this was as I haven’t yet … Continue reading

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lcfg_f20_base.rpms

… is now made and committed (view it in the repository). It’s based on the “Infrastructure Server” Fedora 20 yum environment group, this being the closest thing I could see to a “Basic Server” group.

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lcfg-client

… is now built and installed, together with its prereqs. The new versions are as follows: lcfg-ngeneric-1.4.2-1/noarch lcfg-sysinfo-1.4.1-1/noarch lcfg-client-3.1.3-1/noarch

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