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Changes to package lists
At the recent LCFG Deployers meeting we decided to alter the way we manage some of the LCFG package lists in SL6. Full details are available on the LCFG wiki.
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DICE SL6 now working
It’s now possible to have a DICE SL6 LCFG profile. It should look something like this: #define FIRST_INSTALL #define LCFG_HW_VIRTUALBOX_ADDITIONS #include <dice/os/sl6.h> #include <dice/hw/virtualbox.h> #include <dice/options/office-forum.h> #include <live/wire_forum.h> dhclient.mac !profile.release mSET(develop) It has to be on the develop release. Currently … Continue reading
SL6 x86_64 support for i686
I’ve now added the basic set of i686 libraries into the SL6 x86_64 package lists which should permit the running of most i686 applications (e.g. Adobe acrobat) on that platform. It adds about 60 library packages, which is not too … Continue reading
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Internationalisation Packages
In a change from previous LCFG platforms we are not including all the internationalisation packages by default in the SL6 base or desktop package lists. The internationalisation packages are listed in the lcfg_sl60_international.rpms package list which can be included using … Continue reading
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Autobuilt packages
I have just been through the set of LCFG component packages which are added using individual headers (e.g. lcfg-apacheconf is added through lcfg/options/apacheconf.h) and built them all for SL6 using our new pkgforge service. Encouragingly, nearly all of them seem … Continue reading
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LCFG build tools
The LCFG support for SL6 is stabilising nicely. I have now added the packages for all LCFG build tools. It all seems to work just fine, at least when using subversion, who still uses CVS anyway?…
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openafs
It turns out that the openafs packages shipped by Scientific Linux have init-scripts which are substantially different from those in the standard packages provided on the openafs.org website. Although it was possible to start the AFS client with the LCFG … Continue reading
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LCFG core packages
We’ve been successfully using the LCFG “core” packages on SL6 for a while now so they have been updated to indicate that they have full support for SL6. This will cause a bit of churn for the other platforms but … Continue reading
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Desktop Packages
The SL6 desktop package lists are now functional on both i386 and x86_64. We will probably need to add some more software as we go along but the basics are all there and it is possible to login to a … Continue reading
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First Install
With a bit of hackery I have managed to do my first LCFG managed installation of an SL6 machine. I took a copy of the F13 installroot and replaced the passwd and group template files with the ones we need … Continue reading
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