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---+ MPU Meeting Tuesday 31st May 2016

---++ Inventory
No activity.
---++ LCFG client refactoring
No activity.
---++ SL7 server base
The proposed solution to our *dying DNS* problem is now installed for the develop release only. This is allowing us to spot and eliminate problems with it. We expect it to go to stable in a week or two. 

Alastair's *LVM* change will be in this week's stable release.
---++ MPU SL7 services
Chris has started making a parallel SL7 version of *wake.inf* (called waketest.inf). It needs upgrading from Apache 2.2 to 2.4, SL6 to SL7, old apacheconf to new. The wolclient and wolconf components (used by the wake system) are working on SL7.

Chris has added a patch of Matthew Richardson's to *freenx-server* for SL7. It should prevent stuck sessions.
---++ Miscellaneous development
Stephen has enhanced the *yum* component to make it possible to base configuration URLs on the values of sysinfo resources. It has also been split to make a separate Perl module, and had SL7 support formally marked.

He also enhanced the *sysinfo* component to make it possible to specify a root directory which can be prepended to paths. This makes install methods more convenient.

Stephen made *ngeneric* more suitable for sub-classing and overriding. This prepares the way for Kenny !MacDonald's forthcoming file registry code.
---++ Operational
Stephen has made some Software Collections available for SL7:
   * *devtoolset* optionally installs *gcc* 5 (SL7 has 4.8)