Topic: SME 8.0 Update loses important packages like lynx

[apmuthu]

Installed SME 8.0 on an Atom board using the standard ISO.

Did a yum update. A total of 222Mb was downloaded and updated - all went well.

Now the following RPMs on the ISO in the SME folder do not appear in the rpm -qa list:

e4fsprogs-1.41.12-2.el5.i386.rpm
fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5.i386.rpm
glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.2.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
libfontenc-1.0.2-2.2.el5.i386.rpm
libFS-1.0.0-3.1.i386.rpm
libICE-1.0.1-2.1.i386.rpm
libSM-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm
libXext-1.0.1-2.1.i386.rpm
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.4.el5_7.i386.rpm
libXt-1.0.2-3.2.el5.i386.rpm
lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5_8.3.i686.rpm
rhpl-0.194.1-2.i386.rpm
wireless-tools-28-2.el5.i386.rpm

The i686 RPMs in red above did not get installed in the first place due to being an i386 install and that is okay.

The lynx rpm was quite useful - why has it now been removed?
Wireless Tools, e4fsprogs and font rpms also got removed - any specific reason?

A kernel upgrade occurred as the CentOS 5.8 got updated to CentOS v5.9 and the following new RPMs were installed:

audit-libs-python-1.8-2.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5.i686.rpm
libselinux-python-1.33.4-5.7.el5.i386.rpm
policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.8.el5.i386.rpm
python-hashlib-20081119-4.el5.i386.rpm

The lynx package is available at:
http://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/5.9/os/i386/CentOS/lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm

and at

http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/releases/8/smeos/i386/SME/lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1.i386.rpm

and has been deliberately removed without good reason or replacement.

Any generic method of creating / remastering the SME 8.0 ISO to include all the recent updates? The existing article is too old and is for SME 6.

[janet]

apmuthu

If you want a proper resolution, you should really report all this to bugzilla, link at top of forums.
If you do not have a bugzilla login already (it is different to the forums), then simply create a new login with a valid email address, it's easy enough to do if you are capable of using the Forums & installing SME server.

[apmuthu]

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yum install lynxdid the trick. The others I do not currently use - so it's okay for me.
 
This is just to inform the community of the Gotcha!
 
The SME Server v8.0 ISO does not have the images/boot.iso file and the images/xen folder and some other boot image files that existed upto SME 8.0 Beta 7 ISOs. This dropout was not mentioned even in the release info.
 
Installing using grub4dos from a pendrive required a manual copy of the grldr file onto the sda1 boot partition on the hard disk onto which it was installed.
 
Other info not mentioned in the Wiki:
 
MySQL root Password stored in /root/.my.cnf is same as LDAP Pwd stored in /etc/openldap/ldap.pw
 
No mention of how to regenerate a new random MySQL root Password - only reset to original is available.
 
Bug Report Filed.


 
 

[Stefano]

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yum install lynxdid the trick. The others I do not currently use - so it's okay for me.

you don't need lynx, just use elinks

[apmuthu]

Thanks @Stefano.

Hope this info goes into the Documentation.

elinks now replaces lynx in latest yum update of SME 8.0 - Circa Feb 2013.