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Obsolete Releases => SME VoIP (Asterisk, SAIL etc) => Topic started by: fpausp on June 29, 2008, 07:54:33 PM

Title: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: fpausp on June 29, 2008, 07:54:33 PM

Hi Selintra,

Are you plan to make a new version of the sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso ?


regards

fpausp

Title: Re: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: SARK devs on June 29, 2008, 08:30:07 PM

Why?  What do you need?

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Title: Re: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: fpausp on June 29, 2008, 08:52:10 PM

Hi,

I mean a current version of sail, maybe 640 ?

Best

fpausp

Title: Re: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: SARK devs on June 29, 2008, 10:44:54 PM

It's a biggish job to produce an iso and load it up to the server.

The idea is you download 617 and then just upgrade it to wherever you want it to be.

it takes just a few seconds to download and apply the latest sail release.  It takes hours to upload a new .iso.

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Title: Re: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: fpausp on July 01, 2008, 03:23:13 PM

OK, i understand. Can you tell me how you make the iso ?

Is it possible to integrate all updates (yum) ?


regards

fpausp

Title: Re: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: SARK devs on July 02, 2008, 04:52:50 PM

Making a Redhat/CentOS .iso is extremely complex and there is very little documentation from Redhat, or anyone else, on how to do it.

We have our own semi-automated system here but it is still hard work to create a new version.  If you are really interested then I suggest you start with Google.  There is also an oldish document on here somewhere which shows you how to "break-in" to an SME .iso to add your own modifications/RPMs to it.  It's not complete but it will give you a start point.   

You cannot incorporate yum updates as such, the .iso is a collection of RPMs at a point in time.  This is why neither we, nor SME Inc, nor anyone else, produce .ISOs very often.  The idea is you take the last available .iso and then yum update it to the current release. Because the .iso is rpm based, you might want to learn a bit about rpm before you start.  Again, there is documentation on Contribs regarding the creation of rpms.

Sorry to sound overbearing or patronising but this stuff is really quite hard work and requires a lot of hours to put together.

Kind Regards

 

Title: Re: sark-sme-7.3-2.2.1-617.iso
Post by: fpausp on July 12, 2008, 11:08:48 AM

Hi,

Thanks for your detailed reply, i think it is to much work and a bit to hard for me.

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fpausp