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.

	Note:
	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.

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

	Note:
	You are advised to only upgrade clean machines, e.g. without contribs or other modifications.

If you are running a fresh installation of SME Server 7.4 may upgrade, detail review of upgrade paths will start with RC versions.

1. Install the necessary packages from the sme8os repository: yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os --enablerepo=sme8updates
2. Once completed issue signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

SME Server 7.0, 7.1.x, 7.2 or 7.3

	Note:
	You are advised to only upgrade clean machines, e.g. without contribs or other modifications.

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:

1. 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
2. Manually install the package as below: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos.i386.rpm
3. Then type from command line: yum clean all
4. After that you should be able to upgrade with the following command: yum upgrade --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=sme8os --enablerepo=sme8updates
5. 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
6. 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.