Topic: SME 5.6 Update

[kam]

Hi,

Yesterday I downloaded all packgages from update directory and installed them. Some packages report, that they put new *.conf files (samba for example). Have I need to replace existing config files with new ones?
Another thing, I have older update packages, downloaded at about 1 or 2 months ago. Comparing them with recently downloaded, I found that in newer there are several added packages, it's OK, but in older download there is a package SMEServer-5.6_Update4-02.noarch.rpm, which absent in newer. So, my question is do I need to install SMEServer-5.6_Update4-02.noarch.rpm, or not. Is update4 contains update2.
It's not clear for me, do I need to take care "the history" of updates, or that's enough to keep an eye on update dir. In other words, is the last update contains older updates?

Thanks in advance.
Kamelia.

P.S. Sorry of my bad english

[Dan]

SME updates work like Windows Service Packs - you need only apply the latest one. That's why on most download mirror sites you can only get the latest one.

[Ray Mitchell]

It would appear from advice received from Mitel that the update process has been streamlned to lighten the workload and there will no longer be rpms of the type  "SMEServer-5.6_UpdateX-02.noarch.rpm" included in the update.

The updates folder on mirror sites will just have the latest rpms only.

Regs
Ray

[Mike]

So then we are to just install the latest updates (all of them) on a fresh build of 5.6 ?  Is this correct ?

Mike

[Ray Mitchell]

Mike
If you do a fresh instal of v5.6 UDP then you would instal all of the rpms in the updates folder. If you already have Update 5 installed then you only need to instal the additional rpms.

Previous update instal advice has been:
rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

and for the mppe modules

The mppe sub-directory contains the mppe kernel modules for all kernel
architectures. The correct module is required to enable the PPTP server
to function.

The SME Server 5.6 CD only contains the i686 kernel variant.

To install the athlon specific kernel module, download
it and then run:

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs ppp-mppe-modules-2.4.2-4es.athlon.rpm
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

(of course replacing the module name with the correct one for your system architecture)

Hope this helps
Regs
Ray