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. 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
Setting up your SME Server 8 repositories
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
- 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- Remove outdated rpm database and rebuild it (zeros not O's) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* rpm --rebuilddb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
SME Server 7.0, 7.1.x, 7.2 or 7.3
If you are trying to upgrade from a 7.0, 7.1.x, 7.2 or 7.3 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 --enablerepo=sme8updates
- After this step completes you will see at the end of the transaction note the error in bold: xorg-x11-libs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.33 yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0:0.2.4-3.c4 Complete! rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30974) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm ============================================================== WARNING: You now need to run BOTH of the following commands to ensure consistent system state: signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot You should run these commands unless you are certain that yum made no changes to your system. ============================================================== You will need to run at command line the following before issuing step 6. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* rpm --rebuilddb
- 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.