No Scalix Packages Found During Upgrade

[crankshaft]

Hi;

I am just attempting an upgrade on FC5 from 11.04 to 11.1 (why is 11.2 not available for FC5 ??), and the installer is unable to find the packages.

I have browsed & selected the ......./software/scalix_server folder which contains the rpm packages, but the "forward' button remains greyed out and the message reports:

"No Scalix packages found in the selected directory".

I have also copied the 11.04 scalix-installer script across to the 11.1 folder, but it gives the same error.

Any ideas ??

Also can I install the FC7 version on FC5 ??

Cheers

[Valerion]

That's the reason Scalix recommends it for testing only, and I tell my clients straight out not to even bother with FC / OpenSUSE, and I don't feel it is appropriate for a production server, due to the rate it evolves at. If you want to not pay for the underlying distro, go to CentOS 5.

Scalix only ever supports a single version of FC. There's as many people running FC8 I think as FC5/6, both groups are unhappy. However, remember that Scalix can only do a certain number of systems in QA, as each system costs a certain amount in time, having machines running for support, having to recompile against different libraries, etc.

You will most likely not get Scalix 11.2 running against FC5, too many libraries have been updated in the meantime.

As to why you can't get it installed, I am unfortunately not able to answer your question there. I suggest you run the installer with debugging enabled, then check the output. I have once seen that if your directory you extract to has spaces in the name, it won't install properly.

[schiavo]

Hmmm. I can see where you can justify a bias but if you're going to support an OS then that means you support it. So there should always be an upgrade path available even if that means skipping over an OS version. Otherwise, why bother supporting it at all.

[mikevl]

Hmmmm

I thought the instructions were very clear. Fedora / Open SUSE for testing only, RHEL or SLES for production.

Testing/Evaluation is normally done over a short period of time. So your problem does not exist. No commercial packages are certified to run on Fedora / Open SUSE for production use. It would be commercial suicide to do that.

The enterprise product have a longer release cycle. As a software developer this makes the OS easier to support for the application developers.

But if you really wish to work at companies like Scalix, Oracle etc and port every release of their product for every release of Fedora core & Open Suse, you may want to provide support for Ubuntu Slackware, Debian and a few others. Then you need to provide documentation and support and bug fixs. Of course youll want to do that for FREE cause as a comercial deal it won't stack up.

Depends how you get your kicks I guess.

Mike

[crankshaft]

Hi;

Thanks for all of the comments and suggestions, we have already decided to move to centOS5 in the new year, fedora was our first linux server after using windowze & exchange server for many years, have learnt a lot and decided on CenOS.

The problem of not finding the install packages was as you suggested caused by there being a space in the folder name.

Thanks again