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. SME Server 8.0beta3 is based on CentOS 5.2.
See the Release Announcement for Beta3.
A copy of the Beta3 CD image can be downloaded here.
Testing Team
Here are a list of the Testing Team for this release.
Coordinator
- Gavin Weight
Members
- Craig Jensen (~2 hrs a week [going back to school])
- Brian Read (~2-3 hours per week)
- Cactus (~5 hours per week, or as long as the Miss can miss me ;-) )
- Nenonano (~2-3 hours per week)
- Kruhm (~2-3 hours per week)
- Ed Form (~10-12 hours per week)
- TechnologyWise team (8-10 hrs per week)
- VIP-ire (2-3 hours per week)
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.
Upgrade paths
CD
Upgrading from CD should work fine. If not file a bug here .
Yum
Setting up your SME Server 8 repository
Setup with the following yum repositories...
/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set sme8os repository \ Name 'SME Server 8 - smeos' \ BaseURL 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testing/8/smeos/i386/ ' \ EnableGroups yes \ GPGCheck no \ Visible yes \ status enabled
/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set sme8updates repository \ Name 'SME Server 8 - smeupdates' \ BaseURL 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/testing/8/smeupdates/i386/ ' \ EnableGroups yes \ GPGCheck no \ Visible yes \ status enabled
Expand your yum.conf...
signal-event yum-modify
SME Server 7.4
If you are running a fresh installation of SME Server 7.4 may upgrade, detail review of upgrade paths will start with RC versions.
- Install the necessary packages from the sme8os repository: yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os
- Once completed issue signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
SME Server 7.0, 7.1.x or 7.2
If you are trying to upgrade from a 7.0, 7.1.x or 7.2 server upgrading yum will fail with the following error:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: yum-metadata-parser is needed by package yum
You can solve this using the following steps:
- You will need to download the yum-metadata-parser package from the SME Server 7 repository: wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/SME/RPMS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
- 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
- After that you should be able to upgrade with the following command: yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os
- Once completed issue signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot
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.