Monthly Archives: October 2014

Desktop support

Basic desktop support for SL7 has now been completed. At this stage we are only providing Gnome3 which is based on the packages in the “GNOME Desktop” yum group with all optional packages included. We have gdm logins working, it … Continue reading

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SL7 installer

The installbase and installroot package lists and LCFG profiles have now been created so that it is possible to install SL7 machines directly without having to go via EL7. Again, the use of yummy has made the creation of the … Continue reading

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Package repository layout changes

To simplify the way we build the URLs for the updaterpms.rpmpath resource I’ve altered the local package repository layout for EL7. Where we used to have rpms/os/<platform>/<bucket> we now have rpms/os/<os_base>/<arch>/<bucket>. This means that rpms/os/el7/lcfg becomes rpms/os/el7/x86_64/lcfg. This brings us … Continue reading

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Handling EL7 and SL7

For the new EL7/SL7 platform we’ve been working on recognising the fact that most of LCFG will work on EL7 or any derivative (e.g. Scientific Linux 7, Centos 7, Oracle Linux7). As part of this I have introduced a new … Continue reading

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