Difference between revisions of "SME Server 8"
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| − | <ol></li><li>Perform the upgrade: | + | <ol></li><li>Clean out the yum cache so upgrades work: |
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yum --disablerepo=smeextras --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing upgrade | yum --disablerepo=smeextras --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing upgrade | ||
</li><li>Remove outdated rpm database and rebuild it (zeros not O's) | </li><li>Remove outdated rpm database and rebuild it (zeros not O's) | ||
Revision as of 19:21, 3 November 2009
Status: Beta
SME Server Version 8 will be the next major version of SME Server, and will involve upgrading the base to CentOS 5. SME Server 8.0beta4 is based on CentOS 5.3.
See the Release Announcement for Beta4.
A copy of the Beta4 CD image can be downloaded here.
Testing
Coordinator
- Gavin Weight
All users are encouraged to test, see our draft quality assurance testing page for tasks SME8.0_QA
Considerations before installing
Please, please any issues report to our bug tracker under the SME Server 8 section
This way all problems can be fixed as quickly, early and efficiently as possible by the development team.
Since SME Server 8.0 is still beta no contribs will be released. Once the Release Candidate status is reached contribs will be released for contrib owners to check if their packages need updating. For testing of contribs in advance of release see SME8.0_Contribs_QA
Upgrade paths
CD
Upgrading from CD should work fine. If not file a bug here .
Yum
Pointing repositories to SME 8
Update the MirrorList property to point to the sme8 lists...
db yum_repositories print | grep '^sme' | cut -d= -f1 | while read repo
do
db yum_repositories setprop $repo MirrorList \
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/mirrorlist/$repo-8
done
Expand your yum.conf...
signal-event yum-modify
Performing the upgrade
- Clean out the yum cache so upgrades work: rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
- Perform the upgrade: yum --disablerepo=smeextras --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing upgrade
- Remove outdated rpm database and rebuild it (zeros not O's) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* rpm --rebuilddb
- Perform a post-upgrade and reboot signal-event post-upgrade signal-event reboot
Potential issues that may arise
If you are running a 7.0 system you may need to upgrade smeserver-yum.
- Check which version of smeserver-yum you are running: rpm -q smeserver-yum
- If it isn't at least 1.2.0-25.el4.sme install an updated version: rpm -Uvh \ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/obsolete/7.1/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/smeserver-yum-1.2.0-25.el4.sme.noarch.rpm \ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/obsolete/7.1/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm
If you receive the following error while trying to upgrade:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser is needed by package yum
Solve it by installing the correct version of yum-metadata-parser:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage \ http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/SME/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
Problems and bugs
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. i586 hardware means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, Athlon XP and later.
