Topic: SME on Centos - New Tarball Available

[saas]

A new tarball has been made available to allow more experienced users to create a working Centos (RHEL) based SME distro

The tarball is designed to provide the incentive of developing/fixing on a live (to some extent system whilst avoiding a long and arduos yum upgrade.

Goals are:

1. Make it easier to identify, backout and fix compatibility problems with individual packages without breaking the whole install

2. Encourages more people to contribute package fixes towards the production of a modern, stable and easily updatable Centos(RHEL) base distro

3. Contribute Centos base fixes /packages back to the community for use by others

Looking for an SME project over the vacation?

Information and tarball link can be found on this page:

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SMEonCentos%20HowTo

R.

[eiceic]

What are the advantages of moving from the 7.3 to RHEL base?  

Would it give us SATA drive recognition and more up to date drivers?

Do you know if the Lycoris first new release will be still based on 7.3?

I love SME, but it's getting harder and harder to find new servers that will work with it because of the newer hardware and aging SME release.

Thanks,

Chris Buechler

[saas]

What are the advantages of moving from the 7.3 to RHEL base?

CentOS is an open-source, community-based release of RH Enterprise Linux. Centos is supported by a highly competent and active development team. Centos-3 is based on Enterprise Linux version 3: Suitable for use in a prodcution environment, it offers the advantages of long term, regular and prompt security  updates and support for modern hardware.

Would it give us SATA drive recognition and more up to date drivers?

Yes.

Do you know if the Lycoris first new release will be still based on 7.3?

I don't know - Anyone form Lycorix care to comment?

I love SME, but it's getting harder and harder to find new servers that will work with it because of the newer hardware and aging SME release.

I agree - Also, the continuing support by contribs community is great... but without an immediate and significant commitment to development / upgrade of the core OS and perl module fixes, e-smith IMHO has a very limited future.

R.

[eiceic]

Thanks,

I'll get a test system going and give it a try..  Do you anticipate someone being able to turn this into a simple .iso like the existing SME?  or a shell script that can be executed once SME is installed?

Chris

[saas]

Thanks,
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Do you anticipate someone being able to turn this into a simple .iso like the existing SME?
Chris

Automated install via ISO should not be a major problem.

The official RedHat howto is here:

 http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/RedHat-CD-HOWTO/index.html

For most purposese, CentOS is equivalent to RHEL3, so anything that works for RHEL3 will most likely (though not 'certain to') work in exactly the same way for CentOS based distributions.

There is an E-Smith ISO howto (search here on contribs.org) but I'm not sure how applicable it would be when using a CentOS base system

R.