SME Server 8

Status: Beta

SME Server Version 8 will be the next major version of SME Server, and will involve upgrading the base to CentOS 5. We are just in the early stages of development, but so far things look good.

See the Release Announcement for Beta1 http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=39499.0

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.0/iso/i386/ - 8.0 beta1 (based on CentOS 5.1)

Please, please any issues report to our bug tracker under the SME Server 8 section.
(especially with SME Server 8.0beta1 as this is an early beta release) 

Notes:
- Upgrades from 7 to 8 are still being worked on and might not work correctly yet.
- Also no contribs will be released for 8.0 until we get to the RC status.

New Install

Install with the CD, should work fine. If not report a bug.

Upgrade paths

With CD

Should work fine. If not report a bug.

bugzilla:3726

With Yum

Upgrading via yum if you have SME Server 7.x clean (Excluding 7.3) install can now be done, you will first encounter this error:

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libstartup-notification-1.so.0 for package: libwnck
--> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser for package: yum
--> Processing Dependency: startup-notification >= 0.5 for package: libwnck
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for startup-notification to pack into transaction set.
startup-notification-0.8- 100% |=========================| 5.0 kB    00:00
---> Package startup-notification.i386 0:0.8-4.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser for package: yum
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser is needed by package yum
================================================================
No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
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[root@example ~]#

You will need to download from the [smeos/i386/SME/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm yum-metadata-parser] and manually install the package as below:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm

Then type from command line:

yum clean all

followed by:

yum upgrade --disable "*" --enable smeos

Now you should be on your way to upgrading to SME Server 8betax :)

If you have SME Server 7.3 clean install you will be able to upgrade to SME Server 8betax without any issues.

You should only do this if you are interested in helping with development/testing and of course if you find a bug remember to report to our bug tracker.

sme8os repository

Setup with the following yum repositories...

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set sme8os repository \
Name 'SME Server 8 - smeos' \
BaseURL 'http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/smeos/i386/' \
EnableGroups yes \
GPGCheck no \
Visible yes \
status enabled

Expand your yum.conf...

expand-template /etc/yum.conf

Then run yum command

yum upgrade --disable '*' --enable sme8os

Once completed issue

signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot

If you have any bug issues with upgrading please open a new SME Server 8.x file a bug here

Major Changes

• CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 will not work on i586 hardware. See bugzilla:2845