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==== Prerequisites ====

==== Prerequisites ====

{{warning box|If you plan to build for sme10, you must use an el7 version of centos minimal. It is also workable on a Fedora25}}

{{warning box|If you plan to build for sme10, you must use an el7 version of centos minimal. It is also workable on a Fedora25}}

 

====Installation CentOS6 / CentOS7 minimal====

= '''CentOS 6 Minimal''' =

* It is recommended that you use the latest CentOS 6 (64bit) version as a base http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/ this has been verified to build for SME 7, 8 & 9 and for i386 &x86_64

Just install a minimal el6 installation. You can use either the DVD, the minimal CD install, a net install with PXE, it's up to you. Of course if you prefer you can use a system with a Xorg-server installed (eg: gnome, kde, xfce...)  

 

= '''CentOS 7 Minimal''' =

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=====Installation Centos7 minimal=====

* It is recommended that you use the latest CentOS 7 (64bit) version as a base http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ this has been verified to build for SME 7, 8, 9 and 10 for i386 &x86_64

Just install a minimal el7 installation. You can use either the DVD, the minimal CD install, a net install with PXE, it's up to you. Of course if you prefer you can use a system with a Xorg-server installed (eg: gnome, kde, xfce...)  

* Setup network:

* Setup network:

To start the networking

To start the networking

* You need to have EPEL repository configured as EPELs version of mock will be used

* You need to have EPEL repository configured as EPELs version of mock will be used

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# Enable EPEL for Centos 7

 

# Enable EPEL and sclo repo for Centos 7

rpm -ivh <nowiki>https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/e/epel-release-7-12.noarch.rpm</nowiki>

rpm -ivh <nowiki>https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/e/epel-release-7-12.noarch.rpm</nowiki>

or (works 29Dec19 - bjr)

or (works 29Dec19 - bjr)

  yum install -y epel-release

  yum install -y epel-release

* You need to create a new user, for mock will not accept user root for building packages

* You need to create a new user, for mock will not accept user root for building packages

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     SME Contribs - holding the source code for contribs (add-ons) for SME Server  

     SME Contribs - holding the source code for contribs (add-ons) for SME Server  

Both repositories are organized by the package name under which they appear in the software installer in the server-manager (or yum).  please see [[CVS|CVS page]] for more specific informations}}

Both repositories are organized by the package name under which they appear in the software installer in the server-manager (or yum).  please see [[CVS|CVS page]] for more specific information}}

If this works, it is worth grabbing either CVS for one module, or the whole CVS tree using this : http://wiki.contribs.org/Simple_Package_Modification

If this works, it is worth grabbing either CVS for one module, or the whole CVS tree using this : http://wiki.contribs.org/Simple_Package_Modification

* Setup CVS to use ssh by creating /etc/profile.d/smebuild.sh with the following content

* Setup CVS to use ssh by creating /etc/profile.d/smebuild.sh with the following content

 

  [chris@buildcos9 profile.d]$ sudo nano smebuild.sh

  [chris@buildcos9 profile.d]$ sudo nano smebuild.sh

 

  # Developer environment

  # Developer environment