Topic: YUM and e-smith 5.6

[raffid01]

Greetings,

I'm trying to go the YUM route for future patches/upgrades for my e-smith 5.6 server. I tried installing YUM

rpm -ivh http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/1.0/yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm

but I get a failed dependency error for Python 4.0.4. What's the best way around this. Will a simple upgrade to Python 4.0.4 do the trick?

Thanks,

Raffi

[byte]

Hi,

Why not use this one ( BETA ) http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/6.x/beta/yum/

Post any bugs on the devinfo list as Darrell as done a interface panel on the e-smith side.

Works great as a local respositry, and i believe contribs are working towards a update site for our updates which they might charge yearly something like $99 but nothing is  set in stone.

HTH

[jesperhaun]

I got the beta installed with my SME 6 but I get this error if I try to update or upgrade:

.package php-pgsql needs php = 4.1.2-7.3.6 (not provided)
package qmail needs qmail-users (not provided)

My yum.conf contains this:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[441869]
name=Red Hat Linux 7.3 base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/7.3/i386/

[393961]
name=Red Hat Linux 7.3 updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/7.3/

[raffid01]

*****Update*****

I went ahead and installed Python 4.0.4 and tried installing YUM again. This time the installation went fine. I ran "yum update" and it successfully installed the updates. I then did the usual

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

After the reboot the server would hang at "starting bootstrap-console". Seeing this wasn't going anywhere I decided to upgrade to SME 6.0. The upgrade went well and now everything seems to be working fine except for one thing which I'll get to later.

It seems the SMC YUM update repository contains updates for 6.0, and the updates seem to be incompatible with 5.6 (makes sense). But seeing how much of an improvement 6.0 is over 5.6, I won't be bothering with trying to get YUM working with 5.6. Now to the error message. I'm getting the following message repeated on the console:

INIT: Id "nd" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Obviously generated by initd. Something must be screwed up with inittab script or a process it's trying to run or the way it's running the process. Haven't had time to look into it in detail. Maybe someone has more information. My /etc/inittab contains the following 2 lines which should be related to the message. BIND seems to be working fine too:

nd:3457:respawn:/usr/sbin/named -f -u dns -t /home/dns
ndk:3457:wait:/usr/bin/killall named

I'm glad to see work on the SME server is continuing. This is a nice little server. I find it hard to justify the trouble of installing and configuring a Linux or xBSD server from scratch when the SME server does most of the same functions.

Raffi