These are just my notes to get a EL6 system booting with all the e-smith and smeserver packages installed. As soon as I get it to boot, I'll put this info into contribs.org wiki.
Just install a minimal el6 installation (I just installed a few utilities like htop, screen, rsync, vim, openssh-clients etc…). You can use either the DVD, the minimal CD install, a net install with PXE, it's up to you
It will be easier to see what's going on (and turn off selinux at kernel level, just to be sure)
sed -i -e 's/rhgb quiet/selinux=0/g' /boot/grub/menu.lst
sed -i -e 's/SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g' /etc/sysconfig/selinux
They conflict with some e-smith/smeserver packages
yum remove selinux-policy-targeted authconfig
rpm -Uvh http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/atrpms-repo-6-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
cat<<'EOF' > /etc/yum.repos.d/sme.repo [smeaddons] enabled=1 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeaddons-8 name=SME Server - addons gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smecontribs] enabled=0 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smecontribs-8 name=SME Server - contribs gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smedev] enabled=0 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smedev-8 name=SME Server - dev gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smeextras] enabled=1 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeextras-8 name=SME Server - extras gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smeos] enabled=1 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeos-8 name=SME Server - os gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smetest] enabled=0 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smetest-8 name=SME Server - test gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smeupdates] enabled=1 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeupdates-8 name=SME Server - updates gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 [smeupdates-testing] enabled=0 mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.contribs.org/mirrorlist/smeupdates-testing-8 name=SME Server - updates testing gpgcheck=1 enablegroups=1 EOF
rpm --import http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeos/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-SMEServer
yum install yum-plugin-priorities
[...] [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 priority=50 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 priority=40 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 priority=50 [...]
[epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 priority=60
[rpmforge] name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/$basearch/rpmforge mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/mirrors-rpmforge #mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge enabled = 1 protect = 0 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck = 1 priority=65
[atrpms] name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-atrpms priority=70
A few packages have to be installed manually without dependancy check:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeupdates/x86_64/RPMS/smeserver-yum-2.2.0-20.el5.sme.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeupdates/x86_64/RPMS/e-smith-samba-2.2.0-49.el5.sme.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeos/x86_64/SME/e-smith-test-2.2.0-1.el5.sme.noarch.rpm
yum install perl-Razor-Agent perl-Data-UUID --disablerepo=sme\* --disablerepo=epel
Now, you should be ready to install e-smith-base. For me, this pulls 222 packages (166MB). For some reason, the GPGKey is not recognized, so just run yum with –nogpgcheck
yum --nogpgcheck install e-smith-base
Now install all the remaining e-smith/smeserver packages
yum --nogpgcheck install e-smith\* smeserver\*
It should install the following packages and their dependancies:
e-smith e-smith-LPRng e-smith-apache e-smith-backup e-smith-devtools e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns.org e-smith-dynamicdns-tzo e-smith-dynamicdns-yi e-smith-flexbackup e-smith-horde e-smith-hosts e-smith-imp e-smith-ingo e-smith-ldap e-smith-lib-compspec e-smith-mysql e-smith-ntp e-smith-oidentd e-smith-openssh e-smith-php e-smith-pptpd e-smith-proftpd e-smith-proxy e-smith-qmailanalog e-smith-quota e-smith-radiusd e-smith-turba e-smith-viewlogfiles smeserver-release
Now install samba-client (e-smith-samba has been installed manually without dep check, otherwise it would have pulled samba3x package instead of samba)
yum install samba-client
We've almost finished, we just have to replace upstart with the good old SysVinit, because upstart doesn't support the custom runlevel 7 SME uses
rpm -e --nodeps upstart sysvinit-tools rpm -Uvh http://sme-mirror.firewall-services.com/releases/8/smeos/x86_64/SME/SysVinit-2.86-17.el5.x86_64.rpm
We need to copy some perl modules to a new directory, because @INC has changed in EL6:
cp -a /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/esmith/ /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/
We need to create a new service entry in the DB, because the standard syslog package is now rsyslog:
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set rsyslog service status enabled cp -a /etc/rc7.d/S05syslog /etc/rc7.d/S05rsyslog
We can now try to post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
And reboot. Unfortunatly, I wasn't able to reboot properly at this stage, because of the upstart → SysVinit transition (the error message is “/dev/initctl: No such file or directory”) so I had to destroy the VM completly
Ok, so the system should now boot, but is really not usable, after a quick look, at least the following doesn't work as expected: