Looking forward to NethServer 7

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How will be NethServer 7?

I started some experiments with RPM builds, yesterday. I’d like to reach a v7-alpha1 release very quickly.

My goal for the alpha1 release is having the whole nethserver-iso RPM group available, that means

  • Events & template system
  • Server Manager
  • Basic networking (with lokkit?)
  • …

I’d like minimising code changes, to keep 7 almost equal to 6.6. However some things require an adjustment due to the underlying system changes. On CentOS 7

  • upstart was replaced by systemd
  • RPM conflicts on directories raise errors

So I’m thinking about reviewing .spec files and applying some changes to nethserver-lib, to support systemd.

Please comment!

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I moved 4 posts to a new topic: Docker support on NethServer 7

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What about syslog to journal, how’s that affect your log module?

Honestly, 7 is what I’m waiting on for Nethserver… 6.6 just isn’t worth the investment for me, php, apache… sideloading, no.

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I don’t know; have you any suggestion?

As usual I’m starting from CentOS Minimal. I see rsyslog was installed by Anaconda and this is enough for me for the time being :blush:

Hope you’ll test it soon! :wink:

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Find the differences :wink:

I managed to get Server Manager up and running on CentOS 7 :smiley:

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Photoshop? :smiley:

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Speachless !!!
But after all i know it’s real :smile:

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Nethserver 7 ??? Unbelievable… When I’ll able to download it ? I can’t wait :smile:

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:scream: :scream: :scream: :scream: :scream: :scream:
I look forward

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I moved a post to a new topic: Apple AFP support

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I’m ready to start building on v7 when you’ve got something ready to build on…

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I’m rebuilding RPMs, fixing paths and dependencies and writing basic systemd unit files.

The ISO is almost completed, and Server Manager seems regular. Now, to move to the next step, I ought to push all RPMs in YUM repos, so anybody can test them one by one.

I hope to finish today :wink: stay tuned!

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v7-alpha1 update 2015-05-22

:sunglasses: I managed to have:

  • installation procedure on CentOS 7.1.1503 minal
  • networking (with lokkit)
  • server-manager running

:confounded: I also made an attempt with ISO building, but decided to not release the ISO as only unattended installation works!

:icecream: just to have a taste of NethServer 7, install the official CentOS 7.1.1503 Minimal ISO, then type the following commands:

# yum localinstall http://mirror.nethserver.org/nethserver/7.1.1503/base/x86_64/Packages/nethserver-release-7-0.1.6.g3dbb849.ns7.noarch.rpm
# nethserver-install

:point_up: Additional packages can be installed from the Software Center, but they’ll likely not work.

:alarm_clock: The next goal is having every service (ahem, at least …80% of them) up and running, fixing RPM dirs ownership. In the next weeks I’ll fix them one by one, stay tuned!

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Should we report issues we find while testing? Where?

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There are two known issues categories, with their respective issue number:

  • #3145: -update events not signalled during package installation, due to RPM directories ownership (rpm -qf ...).
  • #3149: Upstart and SysV init scripts cause service startup and management problems.

If the problem you find is related to those issues, you could comment thereon, providing a relevant excerpt of /var/log/messages.

Otherwise report the issue here on Discourse, as usual. Then we’ll see if open a new enhancement on dev.netheserver.org or not.

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:blush: sorry, I can’t resist: I checked it out on Fedora Server, too…

Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two)

I wrestled with dnf but finally got Server Manager up:

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on IBM POWER8, too :smile:

Why not? If you have a RHEL subscription…

[root@poseidon ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)

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Poseidon sounds good… :sweat_smile:

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I renamed it, after seeing how fast it built RPMs. It was so POwerful :rocket:

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