If you are looking for the SME Server updates then go to How to update SME Server

Maintenance Process

This section is for those who want to help the maintenance team, or just learn more about the process.

This is an overview of the process, with the details in the seperate pages.

The Update Identify stage is where a package starts the maintenance process.

The QA Publish stage is used to check a package before it enters the updates-testing channel.

The QA Verify stage is used to check that a package appears to work correctly before it is rolled out to the community.

The Update Publish stage is where a package is rolled out to the community.

yum.conf

Testers should remove the comments from the yum.conf to enable the updates-testing repository. For reference here is the yum.conf file.

FAQ on how to help:

Yum

Yum for SME6 is available at http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/6.0.1/updates-common/i386/
You need rpm-python-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm & yum-1.0.3-7sme03.noarch.rpm
Install them with rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Updating packages with Yum

Unless specified otherwise follow the steps below to update using yum. These need to be entered from the command line.

If you only want to update a single package, newpackage, then use