Bootstrap setup on RHEL4 does not get firmware-addon-dell

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Mon Aug 20 16:46:34 CDT 2007


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:23:36AM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 06:44:47AM -0500, Rose, Charles wrote:
> > Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:27:32PM +0530, Charles_Rose at dell.com wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> 
> > >> I have a RHEL4 install on a PE4600 with all the latest updates from
> > >> RHN. 
> > >> 
> > >> I followed the steps in
> > >> 
> > > http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware#Putting_it_al
> > >> l_
> > >> together For RHEL.
> > >> 
> > >> Both the wget lines worked without a problem.
> > >> 
> > >> But up2date -i firmware-addon-dell gives me this:
> > > 
> > > Well, I see one typo on the page. Not sure if that would
> > > cause this or not. Can you try:
> > > 
> > > rpm -e dell-firmware-repository dell-unsupported-repository
> > > rm /etc/dell-mirror.cfg
> > > 
> > > and then re-bootstrap using my fixed instructions?
> > 
> > Yes, this works. However, update_firmware failed with this python
> > message that I guess the new build should fix:
> > 
> > NameError: global name 'configLocations' is not defined
> 
> You might have seen a thread from a few hours ago on this. I'm currently
> fixing this error and will be doing a release today for it.

Fixed packages now posted.

There is now a GUI too!
--
Michael


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