Amahi 5.3

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Release Notes 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
  • Localization/translation improvements: Norwegian (Norsk and Bokmål), Spanish, French, Dutch, Bulgarian (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!)

How to Test

  • Install F12 with Amahi normally
  • By the time you reach the desktop to the installer, stop
  • Install greyhole (you may have to yum clean metadata):
        rpm -e greyhole        (only those very few who had it installed)
        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" />
  • 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