May news¶

2018-05-24

CERN CentOS 7.5 available.¶

Dear Linux users.

We have a pleasure to announce that updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

                *******************
                CC 7.5 is available
                *******************
            as of Thursday 24.05.2018

and is now default CC7 production version.

For information about CC75, including installation instructions please visit:

    <a href="http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/">http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/</a>

Installation:
- via PXE network boot menu (http://cern.ch/linux/install/)
- non-PXE installation:
http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.5/os/x86_64/images/

and corresponding installation path is:

http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.5/os/x86_64/images/
- Automated PXE installations using AIMS2
Boot targets are:
```
CC7_X86_64
CC75_X86_64
```
Upgrading from previous CERN CentOS 7.X release:

CC7 system can be updated by running:

# yum --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly} clean all # yum --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly} update

-- Thomas Oulevey on behalf of the Linux Team

2018-05-11

CERN CentOS 7.5 testing available.¶

Dear Linux users.

We have a pleasure to announce that updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

        *****************************************
        CC 7.5 TEST is available for installation
        *****************************************
                as of Friday 11.05.2018

and will become default CC7 production version on 24.05.2018.

For information about CC75, including installation instructions please visit:

    <a href="http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/">http://cern.ch/linux/centos7/</a>

Installation:
- via PXE network boot menu (http://cern.ch/linux/install/)
- non-PXE installation:
http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.5/os/x86_64/images/

and corresponding installation path is:

http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.5/os/x86_64/
- Automated PXE installations using AIMS2
Boot target is:
```
CC75_X86_64_TEST
```
Upgrading from previous CERN CentOS 7.X release:

All updates will be released to production repositories only on 24.05.2018.

Until then CC7 system can be updated by running:

# yum --enablerepo=cr --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly}-testing clean all # yum --enablerepo=cr --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly}-testing update
Problem reporting:

Please report problems to Linux.Support@cern.ch

-- Thomas Oulevey on behalf of the Linux Team

2018-05-03

CERN CentOS 7.5 testing available.¶

Dear Linux users.

We have a pleasure to announce that updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

        *******************************
        CC 7.5 is available for testing
        *******************************
           as of Thursday 03.05.2018

and will become default CC7 production version in coming weeks, pending upstream CentOS release.

Updating CERN CentOS 7.4 to 7.5: Before 7.5 is released as production version a CC7 system can be updated by running:

# yum --enablerepo=cr --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly}-testing clean all # yum --enablerepo=cr --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern,cernonly}-testing update

Agile Infrastructure:

As a reminder, all puppet configured machines within the QA environment will receive automatically those updates.

Jaroslaw Polok for Linux.Support@cern.ch