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Mandrake's CLIC Phase1 new version released

From:  Gael Duval <gduval@mandrakesoft.com>
To:  "LWN.net" <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject:  Mandrake's CLIC Phase1 new version released
Date:  Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:17:17 +0100

Mandrake's CLIC Phase1 new version released

A new version of clustering project CLIC Phase1 has been released and is now 
available for download and testing from clic.mandrakesoft.com.

This new release provides additional features from Mandrake Linux 9.0; 
includes a parallelized version of URPMI (MandrakeSoft's automated software 
utility); plus numerous improvements and bug fixes.

New CLIC Phase1 features:

* All cluster tools have been rebuilt with gcc 3.2
* CLIC is now based on Mandrake 9.0
* A parallel version of URPMI is included, based on ka-tools

New packages have been added:

* ccache
* distcc
* jnettop
* fluxbox
* icewm

Several issues have been corrected:

1) corrections in clusterautosetup package:

* added support for distcc
* corrected problem of link with dns webpage (doc alias)
* corrected retrieve of hdlists in setup_install_server
* added link to ganglia monitor and documentation on web server
* added NKA variable in /etc/profile (simplifies use of rshp)
* corrected error in help of setup_client_clic
* corrected generation of parallel.cfg in setup_server_clic
* added wget in requires (client package)
* corrected setup_dns_server (strange problem)
* fixed missing nisdomainname
* fixed urpmi parallel
* fixed domainname with dnsdomainname
* added urpmi parallel configuration
* corrected option for nfs with sync
* corrected tftpbase to /var/lib/tftp
* corrected setup_dns_server pb of restart service
* renamed rapidfirewall rapidnat and added ip_forward
* corrected requires tag

2) corrections in ka-deploy:

* added ka-d-client
* switched ka-d-client to static (for initrd use)

3) correction in OpenPBS:

* corrected a few bugs related to xpbs in setup_pbs_*
* multiple patch to include .depends needed in Makefile
* fixed configure -srcdir in spec
* corrected path problem in setup_pbs_server (function adjust_xpbs)



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