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== SME 9, based on CentOS 6 ==
 
  
=== Prerequisites ===
 
* VIrtual machine (Vmware, Parallels or Virtualbox)
 
* Centos Minimal 64-bit architecture. 32-bit may follow later
 
* Access to EPEL, RPMForge and ATrpms repositories
 
* Setting up a RPM Building environment
 
  
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{{note box| This page is now obsolete, kept for reference only. see [[SME Server:9.0|SME Server 9 Release Notes]]}}
  
=== Current status ===
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* Last update January 30, 2013
 
<strike>Identify all SME Server specific packages (John C.) See notes below.</strike>
 
 
 
<strike>Setting up a RPM building environment (Ian W.)</strike>
 
 
<strike>booting CentOS 6 with the SME packages installed. (Daniel)</strike>
 
 
 
=== Other tasks ===
 
 
 
* Update fields in Bugzilla, currently all bugs are clean-up
 
* Update [[Simple_Package_Modification]] to show how to do this for SME 9 which requires COS6 as a base.
 
* Identify which packages are pulled from ATRPMS/EPEL/RPMFORGE below, we need to move them into the base and stop pulling from those repos.
 
* Create a SME 9 version of each package in CVS, does it build? Enter all problems in Bugzilla.
 
 
 
 
 
=== User Feedback ===
 
Unstructured user feedback can be noted here [[SME9DEV_user_feedback]]. Issues that required developer attention should be logged in our Bug Tracker. (See below)
 
 
 
 
 
=== Bugs ===
 
[http://bugs.contribs.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?product=SME%20Server%209.X&component=Cleanup&resolution=--- Bug Tracker]
 
 
 
Bugs that require immediate attention and are to be considered blocking issues:
 
* [[bugzilla:7240|Bug 7240 - SME 9 yum repos ]]
 
* [[bugzilla:7217|Bug 7217 - Usage of SysVinit, upstart or systemd]]
 
* [[bugzilla:7221|Bug 7221 - Change from syslog to rsyslog]]
 
* [[bugzilla:7222|Bug 7222 - Whiptail ]]
 
* [[bugzilla:7223|Bug 7223 - /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl ]]
 
* [[bugzilla:7226|Bug 7226 - Roll new stable streams of packages for sme9 ]]
 
* [[bugzilla:7227|Bug 7227 - Move code from /etc/inittab templates to elsewhere ]]
 
* [[bugzilla:3596|Bug 3596 - Stop using kudzu for NIC detection]]
 
 
 
 
 
=== Considerations ===
 
* SysVinit is no longer the default with the release of RHEL6, beyond RHEL6 systemd will be used
 
* perl has a new location of the filesystem. New: /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl instead Old: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
 
* perl version 5.8.8 is the new default version on RHEL6. This requires a review of all the perl module rpms which are specific for perl 5.8.5
 
 
 
 
 
== Installing CentOS 6 minimal ==
 
First a few notes on CentOS 6 minimal, which is a bare bones install with very little on board. You can download a copy from one of the CentOS mirrors [http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 here]
 
 
 
* As per above note, only use Virtual Machine for testing purposes. A good free VM package can be obtained [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads here]
 
* You might want to note down as much as possible so you yourself and others can reproduce the actions
 
* Don't use yum with the '-y' flag (install/upgrade without further user interaction) when using the yum install/upgrade commands. (beware copy/paste yum commands)
 
* you might want to note down all packages listed by yum to be installed/upgraded AND their dependencies
 
* Make regular snapshots of your Virtual Machine and describe them specifically. At least when you've reached an important milestone for yourself
 
 
 
 
 
==== Installing the ISO ====
 
* Just install a minimal el6 installation (I just installed a few utilities like htop, screen, rsync, vim, openssh-clients mc etc…). You can use either the DVD, the minimal CD install, a net install with PXE, it's up to you
 
* wellsi: I have used CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal.iso
 
 
 
 
 
==== Enable networking ====
 
Each boot you have to start the network etc etc. I decided it was better with the minimal install and touch as little as possible - if I could then get SME packages installed I could then use that to configure networking later.
 
 
 
To start the networking
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
./etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth eth0
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
or
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
dhclient eth0
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
or if you want to assign a specific IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.2).
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2
 
echo "nameserver 192.168.1.254" >> /etc/resolv.conf
 
route add default gw 192.168.1.254 eth0
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
To make your changes permanent you will need to edit the configuration file to make it active on boot. There is only the vi text editor, you can also install nano.
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
yum install nano
 
nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
and set ONBOOT=”YES”
 
 
 
 
 
==== Enable SSH ====
 
SSH is present but is disabled at this stage. To enable ssh issue:
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
service sshd start
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Disable SELinux ====
 
It will be easier to see what's going on (and turn off selinux at kernel level, just to be sure)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
sed -i -e 's/rhgb quiet/selinux=0/g' /boot/grub/grub.conf
 
sed -i -e 's/SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g' /etc/selinux/config
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Remove selinux-policy-targeted and authconfig ====
 
They conflict with some e-smith/smeserver packages
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
yum remove selinux-policy-targeted authconfig
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
== Configure basic requirements ==
 
The yum configurations could be put as attachments to this bug.
 
* [[bugzilla:7240|Bug 7240 - SME 9 yum repos ]]
 
 
 
 
 
==== Configure third party repo ====
 
Enable the EPEL, ATrpms and RPMForge repo
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rpm -Uvh http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
 
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/atrpms-repo-6-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
Configure SME repository (EL5 version for now)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
cat<<'EOF' > /etc/yum.repos.d/sme.repo
 
[smeaddons]
 
enabled=1
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeaddons-8
 
name=SME Server - addons
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
[smecontribs]
 
enabled=0
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smecontribs-8
 
name=SME Server - contribs
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
[smedev]
 
enabled=0
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smedev-8
 
name=SME Server - dev
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
[smeextras]
 
enabled=1
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeextras-8
 
name=SME Server - extras
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
[smeos]
 
enabled=1
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeos-8
 
name=SME Server - os
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
[smetest]
 
enabled=0
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smetest-8
 
name=SME Server - test
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
#
 
[smeupdates]
 
enabled=1
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeupdates-8
 
name=SME Server - updates
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
[smeupdates-testing]
 
enabled=0
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeupdates-testing-8
 
name=SME Server - updates testing
 
gpgcheck=1
 
enablegroups=1
 
 
 
EOF
 
 
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== import SME's GPG key ====
 
This is a temporary key. The final key will be generated by and available through contribs.org
 
rpm --import http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeos/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-SMEServer
 
 
 
 
 
==== install yum-plugin-priorities ====
 
yum install yum-plugin-priorities
 
 
 
 
 
==== Configure yum priorities ====
 
Set the base, updates and extras repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo a high priority (respectivly 50, 40, 50)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
[...]
 
[base]
 
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
 
gpgcheck=1
 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
 
priority=50
 
 
 
#released updates
 
[updates]
 
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
 
gpgcheck=1
 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
 
priority=40
 
 
 
#additional packages that may be useful
 
[extras]
 
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
 
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
 
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
 
gpgcheck=1
 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
 
priority=50
 
 
 
[...]
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Set Epel to a priority of 60 in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo ====
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
[epel]
 
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
 
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
 
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
 
failovermethod=priority
 
enabled=1
 
gpgcheck=1
 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
 
priority=60
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Set RPMForge to a priority of 65 in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo ====
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
[rpmforge]
 
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
 
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/$basearch/rpmforge
 
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/mirrors-rpmforge
 
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
 
enabled = 1
 
protect = 0
 
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
 
gpgcheck = 1
 
priority=65
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Set atrpms to priority of 70 in /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo ====
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
[atrpms]
 
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
 
failovermethod=priority
 
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
 
enabled=1
 
gpgcheck=1
 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-atrpms
 
priority=70
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Install some package without dependancy check ====
 
A few packages have to be installed manually without dependancy check:
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeupdates/x86_64/RPMS/smeserver-yum-2.2.0-20.el5.sme.noarch.rpm
 
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeupdates/x86_64/RPMS/e-smith-samba-2.2.0-49.el5.sme.noarch.rpm
 
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeos/x86_64/SME/e-smith-test-2.2.0-1.el5.sme.noarch.rpm
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
Two perl package need to be installed manually with sme and epel repo disabled (I need to figure out why repo priority doesn't fix this)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
yum install perl-Razor-Agent perl-Data-UUID --disablerepo=sme\* --disablerepo=epel
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
== Install e-smith-base ==
 
Now, you should be ready to install e-smith-base. For me, this pulls 222 packages (166MB). For some reason, the GPGKey is not recognized, so just run yum with –nogpgcheck
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
yum --nogpgcheck install e-smith-base
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
*wellsi at least the following warnings and errors were shown during this. [[bugzilla:7223|Bug 7223 - /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl ]]
 
<pre>
 
Installing : smeserver-clamav-2.2.0-12.el5.sme.noarch                                                                                  217/229
 
warning: user clamav does not exist - using root
 
  Installing : smeserver-spamassassin-2.2.0-9.el5.sme.noarch                                                                            222/229
 
Group id of 1005 is already taken by user dnscache
 
Can't locate esmith/config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /sbin/e-smith/db line 12.
 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /sbin/e-smith/db line 12.
 
Can't locate esmith/util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases line 26.
 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases line 26.
 
Can't locate esmith/NavigationDB.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf line 25.
 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf line 25.
 
  Verifying  : smeserver-locale-sv-2.2.0-41.el5.sme.noarch                                                                                1/229
 
</pre>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Install the remaining e-smith/smeserver packages ====
 
Now install all the remaining e-smith/smeserver packages. e-smith-base already installed quite a lot of e-smith/smeserver packages as dependency.
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
yum --nogpgcheck install e-smith\* smeserver\*
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
It should install the following packages and their dependancies. See [http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_on_CentOS_6#SME_Server_specific.2Frequired_packages here How to] retrieve a list of the required packages from an installed SME8 server.
 
e-smith                     
 
e-smith-LPRng               
 
e-smith-apache               
 
e-smith-backup               
 
e-smith-devtools             
 
e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns   
 
e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns.org
 
e-smith-dynamicdns-tzo       
 
e-smith-dynamicdns-yi       
 
e-smith-flexbackup           
 
e-smith-horde               
 
e-smith-hosts               
 
e-smith-imp                 
 
e-smith-ingo                 
 
e-smith-ldap                 
 
e-smith-lib-compspec         
 
e-smith-mysql               
 
e-smith-ntp                 
 
e-smith-oidentd             
 
e-smith-openssh             
 
e-smith-php                 
 
e-smith-pptpd               
 
e-smith-proftpd             
 
e-smith-proxy               
 
e-smith-qmailanalog         
 
e-smith-quota               
 
e-smith-radiusd             
 
e-smith-turba               
 
e-smith-viewlogfiles         
 
smeserver-release
 
 
 
 
 
==== Install samba ====
 
Now install samba-client (e-smith-samba has been installed manually without dep check, otherwise it would have pulled samba3x package instead of samba)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
yum install samba-client
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Tweak the system so it can start with upstart (and runlevel4) ====
 
Upstart (the default init in EL6) doesn't support runlevel 7 SME uses. So we'll switch to runlevel 4:
 
 
 
*Create a custom template for /etc/inittab to change the default runlevel to 4
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/
 
cat <<'EOF' > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/10defaultlevel
 
# Default runlevel.
 
#
 
id:4:initdefault:
 
EOF
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
* Create a upstart job to start runsvdir (/etc/init/runsvdir.conf)
 
 
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
start on runlevel 4
 
stop on shutdown
 
respawn
 
exec /etc/runit/2
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
* Move everything from rc7.d to rc4.d (all the links in rc4.d should then point to e-smith-service)
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rm -f /etc/rc4.d/*
 
cp -a /etc/rc7.d/* /etc/rc4.d/
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Move some perl modules ====
 
We need to copy some perl modules to a new directory, because @INC has changed in EL6:
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
cp -a /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/ /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Create a service entry for rsyslog ====
 
We need to create a new service entry in the DB, because the standard syslog package is now rsyslog:
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set rsyslog service status enabled
 
cp -a /etc/rc7.d/S05syslog /etc/rc7.d/S05rsyslog
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== Run post-upgrade ====
 
We can now try to post-upgrade
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
 
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
==== The system boots but completly broken :-) ====
 
Ok, so the system should now boot, but is really not usable, after a quick look, at least the following doesn't work as expected:
 
 
 
* The console on the first boot don't really work. It asks for the admin password (and BTW the password appears in cleartext) but it's all
 
* No network interfaces are detected by the console menu (because kudzu is not installed, only available in SME repo, and require an older python which conflicts with the the one * from EL6)
 
* slapd won't start
 
* httpd won't start
 
* squid won't start
 
* manually running expand-template has no effect (and no error message is printed). But signal-event seems to work (files get expanded and services restarted)
 
* as the network interface are not configured, all the services which requires the internel IP (or the external one) in their config (at least sshd squid and dnscache) won't start
 
* qpsmtpd won't start (can't locate Qpsmtpd/TcpServer.pm in @INC)
 
* There's probably a lot more which is not working
 
 
 
 
 
== SME Server specific/required packages ==
 
To get a list of all specific SME Server packages you can run:
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rpm -qa | grep 'smeserver\|e-smith'| sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//' | sort > smeserver-packages.txt
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
== SME Server specific/required perl packages ==
 
To get a list of the file names ''containing'' the string 'perl' on a running SME8 server.
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rpm -qa | grep perl | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//' | sort
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
or, as per suggestion on the lists (All files ''starting'' with the string 'perl')
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' name=perl\* | sort
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
To export the list to a plain text file you could do:
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="Bash">
 
rpm -qa | grep perl | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//' | sort > perl-list.txt
 
</syntaxhighlight>
 
 
 
 
 
perl-Digest-SHA Y
 
perl Y
 
perl-Archive-Tar Y
 
perl-Authen-PAM ******
 
perl-Authen-SASL Y
 
perl-BSD-Resource ******
 
perl-CGI-FormMagick ******
 
perl-CGI-Persistent ******
 
perl-Class-ParamParser ******
 
perl-Clone Y
 
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 Y
 
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib         Y
 
perl-Compress-Zlib     Y
 
perl-Convert-ASN1     Y
 
perl-Convert-BinHex Y
 
perl-Convert-TNEF ******
 
perl-Crypt-Cracklib ******
 
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum Y
 
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random Y
 
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA Y
 
perl-DateManip Y
 
perl-DBD-MySQL Y
 
perl-DBI Y
 
perl-Digest-HMAC Y
 
perl-Digest-SHA1 Y
 
perl-Email-Date-Format Y
 
perl-Encode-Detect Y
 
perl-Error Y
 
perl-File-MMagic ******
 
perl-Geography-Countries ******
 
perl-HTML-Parser Y
 
perl-HTML-Tabulate ******
 
perl-HTML-Tagset Y
 
perl-I18N-AcceptLanguage ******
 
perl-IO-Compress-Base Y
 
perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2 Y
 
perl-IO-Compress-Zlib Y
 
perl-IO-Socket-INET6 Y
 
perl-IO-Socket-SSL Y
 
perl-IO-stringy Y
 
perl-IO-Zlib Y
 
perl-IP-Country ******
 
perl-LDAP Y
 
perl-libwww-perl Y
 
perl-Locale-gettext ******
 
perl-Mail-DKIM Y
 
perl-Mail-RFC822-Address ******
 
perl-Mail-SPF ******
 
perl-MailTools Y
 
perl-MIME-Lite Y
 
perl-MIME-tools Y
 
perl-Net-DNS Y
 
perl-Net-Ident ******
 
perl-Net-IP Y
 
perl-Net-IPv4Addr ******
 
perl-Net-SMTP-SSL Y
 
perl-Net-SSLeay Y
 
perl-NetAddr-IP Y
 
perl-Object-Persistence ******
 
perl-Package-Constants Y
 
perl-Quota ******
 
perl-Razor-Agent ******
 
perl-RPM2 ******
 
perl-Socket6 Y
 
perl-suidperl Y
 
perl-Test-Inline ******
 
perl-Text-Iconv Y
 
perl-Text-Template ******
 
perl-Time-TAI64 ******
 
perl-TimeDate Y
 
perl-Unix-ConfigFile ******
 
perl-URI Y
 
perl-version Y
 
perl-WWW-Automate ******
 
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport Y
 
perl-XML-Parser Y
 
perl-XML-SAX Y
 
 
 
 
 
I am now going to try and lob in the existing/missing el5 versions to see what happens. My guess is we will need to rebuild the required modules.
 
 
 
 
 
== FormMagick ==
 
Next will be an attack on FormMagick - there is no package in the default install so need to figure that out. In may indeed be horrible, but we can live with it for now.
 
 
 
Hopefully with perl and FormMagick installed, most of the SME stuff *should* basically install.
 
 
 
 
 
== Discussion, help and share ==
 
* Please consult/subscribe to the devs list for more information. [http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/listinfo/devinfo devinfo mailinglist] and in particular all threads starting with " SME on CentOS 6"
 
* There is a IRC channel where people who are interested in this effort 'hang out'. You're most welcome to drop by and/or join. It's free! ;-)
 
** You do not have to install anything to pay the channel a visit. All you need is a nice nickname and right click [http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=SME_server&uio=Mj10cnVlJjk9dHJ1ZSYxMT03Mg13 here] to open the channel in a new browser window or tab.
 
 
 
 
 
== Resources and references ==
 
 
 
 
 
==== Kickstart file ====
 
* A starting point can be found [http://wiki.contribs.org/SME9_Kickstart here]
 
 
 
 
 
==== Setting up a RPM Building environment under CentOS ====
 
* [http://wiki.contribs.org/Simple_Package_Modification Simplest way to develop patches to submit]
 
* [http://wiki.contribs.org/Setting_up_RPM_Building_for_SME_Server Building using Mock]
 
* [http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment On the CentOS wiki]
 
* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/index.html From the Fedora project]
 
* [http://wiki.contribs.org/Package_Modification Simple Package Modification from our wiki]
 
 
 
 
 
==== Suggestions and notes from SME Developers ====
 
* '''From Charlie on 1/21/2013:''' 
 
 
 
You will need to modify a bunch of perl module rpms to use
 
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl instead of /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/. You'll
 
also need to replace all the perl module rpms which are specific for perl
 
5.8.5 and 5.8.8 with ones which will work with RHEL6. Most of those will
 
come from epel or rpmforge.
 
 
 
There's a little work to switch to rsyslog instead of syslog.
 
 
 
<strike>You'll need either a new whiptail rpm or new console.pm which uses only
 
unmodified dialog.</strike>
 
 
 
  
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The [http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?title=SME_on_CentOS_6&oldid=18561 previous] instructions on how to install SME packages on CentOS 6 minimal are now out of date, but are still available in the history [http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?title=SME_on_CentOS_6&action=history archive].  Please see [[SME9Alpha | SME9Alpha]] for the latest development steps.
  
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The [http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?title=SME_on_CentOS_6&oldid=18561 previous] version can be usefull as a starting point for:
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* Creating an OpenVZ template for SME
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* Building SME on other future CentOS versions
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* Building SME on CentOS like distros
  
 
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This page is now obsolete, kept for reference only. see SME Server 9 Release Notes



The previous instructions on how to install SME packages on CentOS 6 minimal are now out of date, but are still available in the history archive. Please see SME9Alpha for the latest development steps.

The previous version can be usefull as a starting point for:

  • Creating an OpenVZ template for SME
  • Building SME on other future CentOS versions
  • Building SME on CentOS like distros