LCFG Deployers' Monthly Meetings 2020

The meetings are typically held on the first Thursday of each month, starting at 2.15pm, the location is noted in the title for the month. Notes after the meetings are added in italic to the agenda items. See MonthlyMeetings2019 and MonthlyMeetings2018 for notes from earlier meetings.

4th June 2020 (Microsoft Teams) - 3pm

• Ubuntu Focal port
  • Package repository mirroring using aptly
  • Package Lists and lcfg-soy - Soy
  • Working towards full control of packages - updates, dependencies and removals
  • PAM tweaks - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfgubuntu/2020/05/22/pam-configuration/
  • Fixed cron component so file permissions are correct
  • No longer supporting 19.10 (eoan ermine)
• New daily snapshot release for rapid-development - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfgubuntu/2020/05/15/accelerating-development/
• MDP header rationalisation done for now - thanks to everyone for helping

7th May 2020 (Microsoft Teams) - 3pm

• Ubuntu Focal port
  • Disk partitioning - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfgubuntu/2020/05/07/installer-disk-partitioning/
  • Package Lists - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfgubuntu/2020/05/07/package-lists/
  • Repository Management - https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfgubuntu/2020/05/07/package-repository-management/
  • Package specifications - Ubuntu using modern style - PackageSpecifications
• soy - https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/uoe-gits/lcfg-soy
• LCFG-level support for SL7.8
• Large set of SL7.6 security updates
• MDP clearout
• ECDF Subversion and Trac (package-recipes Trac to be dropped)

2nd April 2020 (Microsoft Teams) - 3pm

• Ubuntu desktop project - overview
  • New package specification - PackageSpecifications - requires mkxprof restarts, will begin appearing in headers very soon
  • Package Lists - what's the current status of soy?
  • Need to switch from reprepro to aptly for repository management
  • apteryx - still has problem with getting into a loop when a package install script fails
• Focal Fossa
  • Due for release fairly soon
  • Have begun to add support
• Disk/Partition config
  • UEFI by default
  • LVM by default
  • Working on lcfg generator for partman custom recipe in debian-installer
  • Support for two layouts - atomic (default) and multi (define LCFG_DISK_LAYOUT_MULTI) which adds /var and /tmp partitions
  • Both layouts can have scratch/data partition added (or you could use it for free space).
• RHEL 7.8 - release notes
• MDP CUPS config
• MDP installbase profiles
• MDP remove etcprofilevars from default

5th March 2020 (7.14 Appleton Tower)

• Ubuntu desktop project
• installer - kauth & ntpdate

6th February 2020 (7.14 Appleton Tower)

• Ubuntu desktop project
• LCFG ports 732 and 733 reserved against automatic allocation.
• No support for SL7.5
• SL6 - many old schema versions removed
• Implications of EdLAN refresh
• git svn live demo (bduncan)

2nd January 2020

No Meeting

-- squinney - 2020-01-06