Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm not sure that building such an iso will help things along much. Charlie, the goal is to keep everything current and make the install process as easy as it should be. If we go back to the 5.0 iso it really was a nuisance to install a new server, then immediately afterward be forced to install all the blade updates, just to get to the most recent release. (This appears to continue to be the Mitel direction however we have not seen any blades for 5.1.2 released yet) It would have been preferred for Mitel to simply issue a revised iso, maybe even a monthly iso, but this did not happen. And this did not consider any of the fine contribs that were available at the time. Right now, if I use the 5.1.2 iso to build and deploy a new server, from the get go, it is still not current and ultimately does not contain what many of us feel might be considered mandatory contribs. Let's take a quick look: - a firewall without a port forwarding panel - a backup/restore function without a selective restore panel - a server without a tool to connect to the commandline from a Windows client (webconsole). just a few examples.... I think many of us listened to statement that said 'if you build it, we just might incorporate it'. Unfortunately we are not seeing this happen. Many excellent contribs await incorporating into the base iso. So we are forced download and add as an example, Dan's PHP and IMP and then we visit e-smith.org and we download a contrib from here and a few from there and then we visit my site and download a few more and we manually install of the above and after an hour or two we finally have our new SME 5.1.2 ready to go. Wouldn't it be nice to have an iso that does all the above? This is so easy to accomplish and something I do personally already. I build a custom iso for my own installs as I know others do as well. All I'm saying is let's gather a list of the contribs that everyone feels is a must have and we build and release an iso that is current and we keep it current, say on a monthly basis. All that is needed is a monthly rsync and we all keep our isos current. And for those that might say that the server-manager will just get cluttered, use my servermanager-navigation contrib, and pick and choose what gets displayed :-) Regards, -- Darrell May DMC Netsourced.com http://netsourced.com http://myEZserver.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
