Amahi 5.3

Release Notes

• Disk Pooling, using Greyhole technology:
  • Virtual multi-drive disk
  • File replication, 2 to max-number of disks in the pool!
• Application environment variables, for more flexible packaging of apps
• Localization/translation improvements: Norwegian (Norsk and Bokmål), Spanish, French, Dutch
• New translation: Japanese!
• Multiple UI improvements across the setup pages, for usability and consistency:
  • Nice images for the status of the servers area (see the eye candy)
• Application dependencies: install multiple applications that depend on others, in just one click

How to Test

• Install F12 with Amahi normally
• By the time you reach the desktop to the installer, stop
• Install greyhole and redhat-lsb:

        yum -y install greyhole redhat-lsb

• Install, with --nodeps, the latest hdactl from the (64 or 32bit)
  • 32bit - rpm -Uvh --nodeps <latest_rpm repo="amahi-alpha" rpm="hdactl" arch="i386" output="url" />
  • 64bit - rpm -Uvh --nodeps <latest_rpm repo="amahi-alpha" rpm="hdactl" arch="x86_64" output="url" />
• Install latest platform from the alpha site

        rpm -Uvh --nodeps <latest_rpm repo="amahi-alpha" rpm="hda-platform" arch="noarch" output="url" />

• Restart the installer to pick up the latest bits

      service amahi-installer restart

Known Issues

• You may be getting sabnzbd failed to start missing depends (cheetah,cherrypy, sqlite). This may need to be filed as a bug

To Do

• Some greyhole warnings for / partitions
• Do not allow adding full partitions to the GH pool