Amahi 5.3
From Amahi Wiki
Release Notes
These are for for RC1 (not for general consumption)
- Disk Pooling, using Greyhole technology (Thanks Guillaume!):
- Virtual multi-drive disk
- File replication, 2 to max-number of disks in the pool!
- Application environment variables, for more flexible packaging of apps
- Translation/localization improvements for: Norwegian (Norsk and Bokmål), Spanish, French, Dutch, Bulgarian, Portuguese/Portugal, Chinese, Indonesian (Thanks translation team!)
- New translation: Japanese (Thanks Shingo!)
- 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
- Installer improvements:
- More reliability when the installer starts (sinatra installs, remove sinatra-sequel)
- Better messages, more up to date
- A lot of updates related to building .deb packages for Ubuntu support (Thanks anzenketh!)
- Fixed exception caused by deleting a calendar (#506)
- Revamped calendars area and added the ability to create a new empty calendar to make it much easier to use them in clients
- Use reload instead of restart in samba when updating the platform
- Bug in the way the ajax spinners are generated - add semicolon everywhere, for more robust operation
- Make sure the network device is always enabled ONBOOT in the installer and the HDA daemon
- Do not show partitions of less than 200mb to add to the Greyhole disk pool
How to Test
- Install F12 with Amahi normally
- By the time you reach the desktop to the installer, stop
- Install greyhole:
yum clean metadata rpm -e --nodeps greyhole yum -y install hda-greyhole
- 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" />
- 32bit -
- 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 or other things that are not too smart to add to a pool
- Do not allow adding full partitions to the GH pool