September news

2019-09-30

CERN CentOS 7.7 available.

Dear Linux users,

We are pleased to announce that the updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

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            CC 7.7 is available
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          as of Monday 30.09.2019

and is now default CC7 production version.

For information about CC77, 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/7.7/os/x86_64/images/

  and corresponding installation path is:

  http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.7/os/x86_64/images/

  • Automated PXE installations using AIMS2

  Boot targets are:

  CC7_X86_64
  CC77_X86_64
  

  • A new Openstack image is also available:

    name : CC7 - x86_64 [2019-09-30] id : 7ebe5c0e-fbbe-4d90-90b1-a48f032bcdc8

• 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

-- Ben Morrice on behalf of the Linux Team

2019-09-19

CERN CentOS 7.7 testing installation available.

Dear Linux users.

We are pleased to announce the newly updated CERN Centos Linux (CC7) version:

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        CC 7.7 TEST is available for installation
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            as of Wednesday 18.09.2019

and will become the default CC7 production version on 30.09.2019.

For information about CC7.7, 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/7.7/os/x86_64/images/

  and corresponding installation path is:

  http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.7/os/x86_64/

  • Automated PXE installations using AIMS2

  Boot target is:

  CC77_X86_64_TEST
  

  • Openstack TEST image is also available: name : CC7 TEST - x86_64 [2019-09-17] id : 6787adb6-982f-4310-a6a8-53d6cee15d0c

  • Puppet managed VMs can be created with the following options: ai-bs --cc7 --nova-image-edition Test [...]

• Upgrading from previous CERN CentOS 7.X release:

  All updates will be released to production repositories only on 30.09.2019.

  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

-- Ben Morrice on behalf of the Linux Team

2019-09-03

CERN CentOS 7.7 testing available.

Dear Linux users.

We are pleased to announce the updated CERN CentOS Linux (CC7) TEST version:

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        CC 7.7 is available for testing
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           as of Tuesday 03.09.2019.

For information about CC7, including installation instructions please visit:

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

Please note that install media is not yet available. We will send an additional email when ready.

• Updating CERN CentOS 7.6 to 7.7

CC7 system can be updated by running:

# yum --enablerepo=cr \ --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern}-testing \ --enablerepo=epel-testing \ clean all

# yum --enablerepo=cr \ --enablerepo={updates,extras,cern}-testing \ --enablerepo=epel-testing \ update

• Agile infrastructure

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

-- Ben Morrice for Linux.Support@cern.ch