Monthly Archives: February 2011

Configuring stock SL6 to use DICE and LDAP changes

Configuring a stock SL6 box to use DICE kerberos, ldap and AFS was trivial. Kerberos and LDAP can be configured via the system/admin/authentication GUI. All that was required for AFS was to add a CELL=inf.ed.ac.uk to the end of /etc/sysconfig/openafs. … Continue reading

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LCFG core builds

Using the newly configured mock chroots for SL6 I have just built the packages for everything in the LCFG core list. This includes: lcfg-authorize lcfg-client lcfg-file lcfg-logserver lcfg-ngeneric lcfg-om lcfg-sysinfo lcfg-utils lcfg-pkgtools perl-LCFG-PkgTools perl-LCFG-PkgUtils perl-LCFG-Utils perl-W3C-SAX-XmlParser perl-W3C-Util-Basekit These have all … Continue reading

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mock configuration

I’ve put together a configuration for mock to allow us to cleanly build SL6 (both i386 and x86_64) packages. So far I’ve only tested that this works on my F13 test machines. There were a few small issues that are … Continue reading

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SL6 release candidate 1 released

The SL6 Release Candidate 1 has been released. We reckon it’s a good time to start the SL6 LCFG port project. The project has a home page.

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