April news¶

2020-04-20

CentOS 8.1 available for installation.¶

Dear Linux users,

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the next CERN Linux release:

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    C 8.1: CentOS 8.1
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For information about CentOS 8, including installation instructions please visit:

http://cern.ch/linux/centos8/

Installation:
- via PXE network boot menu (http://cern.ch/linux/install/)
- non-PXE installation:

http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/8.1/kickstart/x86_64/images/

and corresponding installation path is:

http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/8.1/kickstart/x86_64/

- Automated PXE installations using AIMS2

    Boot targets are:

        C8_X86_64
        C81_X86_64

- Openstack image is also available:
        name : C8 - x86_64 [2020-04-16]
        id   : 1ac86763-9942-424d-89c1-6e7138f5d135

- Puppet-managed VMs can be created with the following option:
        ai-bs --c8 [...]

Problem reporting:

Please report problems to Linux.Support@cern.ch

-- Alex Iribarren on behalf of the Linux Team

2020-04-16

CERN CentOS 7.8 testing installation available.¶

Dear Linux users,

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

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        CC 7.8 TEST is available for installation
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               as of Thursday 16.04.2020

and will become the default CC7 production version on 30.04.2020.

For information about CC7.8, 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/7.8/os/x86_64/images/

and corresponding installation path is:

http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/centos/7.8/os/x86_64/
- Automated PXE installations using AIMS2
Boot target is:
```
CC78_X86_64_TEST
```
- Openstack TEST image is also available: name : CC7 TEST - x86_64 [2020-04-15] id : 5ce3a956-976b-4425-a480-4f24021fe53e
- 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 30.04.2020.

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

2020-04-14

CERN CentOS 7.8 testing available.¶

Dear Linux users.

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

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        CC 7.8 is available for testing
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            as of Tuesday 14.04.2020.

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 7.7 to 7.8

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