Here's the latest status and package updates for NORD.
NORD is in production use for both internal and external service at casita.net, and is presently reliable and stable. But it's smart to keep current.
NORD Updates - core operating system
Most of the NORD systems at casita.net use a shared operating system. For virtual machines, the OS resides on a shared virtual disk and "client" guests all boot from that disk and use it for the core system. To perform maintenance on the OS, there are swappable copies of this disk. When applying mantenance, mount the alternate disk, 'chroot' into that filesystem, mount any required support, and run 'nord-build-csc' for each package of interest. (Tool chain is usually not part of the core OS in NORD, so would be mounted from a separate disk or filesystem.)
Packages updated lately include (listed here with versions) ...
- bash-4.4
- coreutils-8.27
- curl-7.54.1
- dash-0.5.9.1
- diffutils-3.6
- file-5.31
- findutils-4.6.0
- gawk-4.1.4
- gettext-0.19.8
- grep-3.1
- gzip-1.8
- m4-1.4.18
- nano-2.8.6
- readline-7.0
- rsync-3.1.2
- sed-4.4
- texinfo-6.4
- wget-1.19
- xz-5.2.3
- zlib-1.2.11
For each, the stub makefile can be found from ...
http://www.casita.net/pub/cscratch/package.mk
The syntax of 'nord-build-csc' does not include the version. The version is in the stub makefile.
After updating core packages, simply unmount the 'chroot' environment. Swizzle the alternate disk (now with the latest core packages) into the place of the production disk when the time is right and reboot the client virtual machines.
NORD Updates - supplemental software
Supplemental packages on NORD are handled primarily via Chicory. (In fact, a major purpose of NORD is to serve as a showcase for Chicory and as a build environment.) Most of the core OS packages in NORD can also be built with Chicory. All of the above updates are reflected in the Chicory build of those packages. For each, see the "wrapper" makefile ...
http://www.casita.net/pub/package/package-version.mak
Chicory packages updated recently include ...
- bind-9.11.1
- db-6.0.20
- gcc-4.2.4
- gcc-4.8.5
- gnucobol-1.1
- jansson-2.10
- libevent-2.0.22
- libevent-2.1.8
- libressl-2.5.5
- libressl-2.6.0
- musl-1.1.16
- openssl-0.9.8k
- openvpn-2.3.15
- python-2.5.2
- regina-3.9.1
- screen-4.6.1
This is not an exhaustive list.
On NORD, use 'nord-build-opt' or 'chicory-build' to build Chicory packages.
The updated core packages have been reflected in a master spreadsheet for NORD. The supplemental packages have not, but soon will. This spreadsheet, along with other docs, resides in Google space, which is considered sub-optimal since it is proprietary. There is also a Github respository for NORD which includes a growing body of NORD build scripts. The official repository is http://www.casita.net/pub/nord and http://www.casita.net/nord. (casita.net is available both HTTP and HTTPS and does not require HSTS.)
-- R; <><
