Errata packages for SME/Alpha
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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL USERS
14 December 2003: SME/Alpha V5.5 is based on Mitel's SME 5.5, which was
silently end-of-lifed in September 2003, and Red Hat Linux 7.2, which will be
end-of-lifed on 31 December 2003. It is as yet unclear whether or not there
will continue to be GPL'ed sources of security backports for RHL 7.2 after 31
Dec 2003. As a result, I cannot recommend that anyone continue to use SME/Alpha
V5.5 and urge all users to explore alternatives.
Introduction
This page holds errata packages for SME/Alpha. Errata packages are made
available in response to advisories from Red Hat, advisories from Mitel,
or user-submitted bug reports (provided that I or someone else can fix it).
Here's one possible way to download and install these errata packages:
- Log in on your SME/Alpha server as a regular user with a login shell. See
this FAQ entry for instructions on how to give a
regular user a login shell.
- Make a directory "errata" to store your packages in:
$ mkdir errata
- Change to this newly created directory:
$ cd errata
- Go to the page you're reading now with the browser "links":
$ links www.robert2.dds.nl/errata.html
- Use up and down arrow keys to select errata package link and press 'd' to
download errata package. Repeat for all new errata packages. If you get an ftp
error message, try again later. Digital's ftp server is occasionally
overloaded.
- Press 'q' to quit links.
- Change user with 'su' command to default su user (= "root"):
$ su
- Enter root password.
- Install the updates with the rpm command. Obviously, you must substitute
the names of the rpm files for <new_errata_packages>.
Tip: use tab-completion and wildcards.
# rpm -Uvh <new_errata_packages>
Note: errata packages that are grouped together in the table below need to be
applied/installed together.
Note: some packages require additional actions. These packages will have notes
explaining what to do.
- Change back to previous user:
# exit
SME/Alpha V5.5 errata
Note: Source RPMS (SRPMS) that are not referenced here can be found either on
SME's download sites or here
on Digital's ftp server.
Notes
- Warnings about *.rpmnew configuration file copies can be
ignored.
- Dead link(s) outdated by newer errata package(s).
- Read advisory for update instructions.
- Reboot after applying update.
- The samba packages were compiled with support for CUPS, the
Common UNIX Printing System, which is currently being integrated into SME/Alpha
V5.5. This is why these packages depend on cups-libs, which in turn depends on
libtiff. Binary and source rpms for the CUPS printing software will be made
available when ready.
- Type the following commands at the root prompt after installing
these errata packages:
# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
- The isdn4k-utils package included with SME/Alpha V5.5 has
suddenly decided that it doesn't like our version of initscripts. This leads to
a conflict when trying to install the initscripts update. Before applying the
initscripts update, you must revert isdn4k-utils to this errata version with
the following command:
# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage isdn4k-utils-3.1-39.alpha.rpm
- The only change in this erratum package is the removal of a
xinetd configuration option that conflicts with the new xinetd erratum package.
Type the following command at the root prompt after installing this erratum
package:
# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/xinetd.conf
- Important: you MUST install the latest e-smith-base erratum
package AND expand the template for /etc/xinetd.conf BEFORE installing this
erratum package.
- Type the following commands at the root prompt after installing
these errata packages:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-admin restart
- Type the following command at the root prompt after installing
these errata packages:
# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update
Robert van den Aker. Last modified: Sun, Dec 14 2003.