Topic: Is SME 6.0 up to date?

[jesperhaun]

Is SME 6.0 up to date regarding security patches and other patches?

As far as I can see there are no updates in the download section.

Is contribs.org comitted to delivering updates when they are released? I assume that Mitel dosen't do this anymore.

[wyron]

Well, the updates are there, just not where you would expect to find them.
They are not security patches right now, but rest assured ! They will be there when they are needed. The community will se to that !
For updates bringing you 'up to standard', take a look at the changelog text here http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/changelog.txt. If I were you I'd write it out.
After that you can download those relevant for you from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/RPMS/
. . . and install them.

[chris burnat]

For updates bringing you 'up to standard', take a look at the changelog text here http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/changelog.txt.    

Is this link correct?  I am getting a multilinguage error 404 page... Thanks for assistance.  chris

[jesperhaun]

Just remove the last dot:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/changelog.txt

[Anonymous]

SME 6.0 is certainly up to date.  Like any piece of software, it has bugs.  No way around that.  The good news is that to date, no signficant bugs have been found.

Greg Zartman

[marsa_matruh]

After that you can download those relevant for you from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/RPMS/
. . . and install them.

Indeed, it does not seam to be up to date. For the kernel, you can find a newer version by RedHat, the 2.4.20-28.8, which is the last one for RedHat 7.3. There won't be any newer as RH 7.3 is no more supported by RH. This last version fixed the problem with user shell (that you did not allowed on your server   )

[damien]

After that you can download those relevant for you from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/RPMS/
. . . and install them.

Indeed, it does not seam to be up to date. For the kernel, you can find a newer version by RedHat, the 2.4.20-28.8, which is the last one for RedHat 7.3. There won't be any newer as RH 7.3 is no more supported by RH. This last version fixed the problem with user shell (that you did not allowed on your server   )

Many of the packages in the base distro are old and have updated releases to fix vulnerabilities and bugs.

For my own purposes I've been keeping up to date using the fedora legacy project, and where the rpms are e-smith/sme customised with extra patches etc. I've been patching releases of the standard packages to incorporate these changes.

But for a first step visit the Fedora Legacy Project: http://www.fedoralegacy.org

I keep a copy of the required updates here where you can get an idea which standard packages found at the Fedora Legacy site updates dir for 7.3 are suitable for sme 6.0 (Download them from fedora legacy though)

The custom packages I use live at http://www.pagefault.org/download/e-smith/6.0/updates-testing/i386. Note the directory name, YMMV.

The only unusual step I take is to comment out the path lines in /etc/modules.conf when upgrading a kernel, but this is due to a bad experience a long time ago and may not be neccessary.
--
 Damien

[bobk]

The changelog.txt file, located at http://[url][url][url]http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/changelog.txt, does not appear up to date. There are 3 files in the repository with newer versions than shown in the change log file.


Name : e-smith-base
 Version : 4.14.1
 Vendor: contribs.org
 Release : 14
 Build Date: Sat 10 Jan 2004 03:19:38

 Release on server: 16
 File Date on server: 28-Jan-2004 11:56

Name : e-smith-lib
 Version : 1.14.0
 Vendor: contribs.org
 Release : 09
 Build Date: Thu 18 Dec 2003 01:53:40

 Release on server: 10
 File Date on server: 12-Jan-2004 00:21

Name : e-smith-support
 Version : 1.4.4
 Vendor: contribs.org
 Release : 03
 Build Date: Sat 10 Jan 2004 01:04:58

 Release on server: 04
 File Date on server: 30-Jan-2004 12:10

[lajgaard]

To make sure that your system is up to date - would it not be the easiest thing to just download the entire folder at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/development/RPMS/

And then run an "rpm -U"? Would that not update the relevant packages and skip the irrelevant ones?