Install all e-smith/smeserver packages on EL6

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.

• Start from a minimal el6 installation (I just installed a few utilities like htop, screen, rsync, vim, openssh-clients etc…)
• Disable graphical boot, it will be easier to see what's going on

sed -i -e 's/rhgb quiet//g' /boot/grub/menu.lst

• Disable SELinux:

sed -i -e 's/SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=disabled/g' /etc/sysconfig/selinux

• Remove selinux-policy-targeted and authconfig, they conflict with some e-smith/smeserver packages

yum remove selinux-policy-targeted authconfig

• Enable the EPEL repo

rpm -Uvh http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

• Enable the ATrpms repo

rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/atrpms-repo-6-6.el6.x86_64.rpm

• Enable RPMForge

rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

• Configure SME repository (EL5 version for now)

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

• install yum-plugin-priorities

yum install yum-plugin-priorities

• Configure yum priorities
  • Set the base, updates and extras repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo a high priority (respectivly 50, 40, 50)

[...]
[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
 
[...]

• Set Epel to a priority of 60 in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

[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

• Set RPMForge to a priority of 65 in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

[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

• Set atrpms to priority of 70 in /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

[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