Is the firmware repository going out of date?

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:14:54AM -0700, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
>    Looks like all the firmwares that I have on the system are up to date but
>    the repository doesn't have the current versions only the previous
>    versions.
> 
>    Manually browsed the repository and in fact the latest version of the
>    system BIOS that is available in the repository for the PE 2950 is the
>    1.5.1 version.
> 
>    Ran into this issue on a couple of other systems, can't remember the makes
>    but the latest firmware in the repository is not the latest available.
> 
>    Is this normal? Does the repository get regenerated quaterly or something
>    along those lines?

The automated extraction job wasn't working right because some
applications moved around and the paths didn't get updated
accordingly.  I've fixed this now, and am running another extraction
and RPM/DEB creation run.  Should be updated in a few days or less if
everything goes well.

The goal is for the extraction and creation of RPMs/DEBs to happen
daily.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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