Hi Angus,
I've never tried Ansible, I'll have a look at it.
CentOS 6 is still installed via Github. Look through the list and you
can find the procedure to install it.
For CentOS 6 updates use the WHTC repo: # rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/repo/qmt/CentOS/6/current/noarch/whtc-qmt-1-1.qt.el6.noarch.rpm
As for CentOS 7 there are two methods:
<method 1>
1) Install CentOS 7 minimal install (I install both options under
minimal install. One is development tools and I can't remember the other).
2) curl
ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_prep.sh
>qt_prep.sh
3) sh qt_prep.sh (Automatic reboot)
4) sh qt_install.sh
</method 1>
Or
<method 2>
1) Install CentOS 7 minimal install (I install both options under
minimal install. One is development tools and I can't remember the other).
2) curl
ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_prep.sh
>qt_prep.sh
3) sh qt_prep.sh (Automatic reboot)
4) curl
ftp://ftp.whitehorsetc.com/pub/qmail/CentOS7/qmt/scripts/qt_grp_install.sh
>qt_grp_install.sh
5) sh qt_grp_install.sh
</method 2>
Eric Shubert is still the lead for QMT. I will continue to do packaging
in his absence. Eventually, I'd like to move all the work that I've done
to GitHub. There are many people using and updating CentOS 7 and have
been since near the beginning of this year with success. I'd say that
its stable.
EricB
On 12/11/2015 8:15 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote:
I’ve been running a QMT server on a CentOS 5 VPS for a while, and I’m
now looking to migrate it to a newer host.
What’s the currently-preferred platform? CentOS 6, or CentOS 7? Are
there any other special requirements?
Also, I know that in the absence of Eric Shubart, Eric Broch has been
doing all the heavy lifting and maintaining the RPMs. Is there a
document anywhere that describes the current step-by-step installation
procedure using the RPMs on whitehorsetc.com
<http://whitehorsetc.com>? Is it essentially unchanged from before, or
are there new things we need to know?
Final question: has anyone tried using Ansible to manage a QMT
install? I’ve just started to play around with Ansible, and it seems
like a well thought-out tool, so I’m wondering how easy it would be to
use to automate the process of getting QMT up and running.
Thanks,
Angus
