[testing] All Dell Update Packages available in Firmware-Tools RPM format

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

All firmware-tools users,

I have completed initial work on a conversion tool that will convert Dell Update Packages (DUPs) to firmware-tools format. The results of this conversion are available for testing in the firmware testing repository. I will be promoting these to the official repository in a few weeks after I have gotten feedback.

This means that firmware-tools can now update every component that Dell DUPs can update, and you can do it via an easy-to-setup yum repository.

You can browse the list of available updates here:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/testing/noarch

SETUP:

1) Follow the instructions for your system here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware

2) After you have followed step 1, change your system to pull from the testing repository
  -- YUM:  in /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-firmware-repository.repo, add "&osname=testing" to the end of the 'mirorrlist=' line.
  -- up2date: in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources, add "&osname=testing" to the end of the yum-mirror dell-firmware line.
  -- sles: add a new service with the same URL as the existing dell-firmware URL, but append "&osname=testing" to the end.

3) Install the "dell_inventory_collector" RPM.
  -- yum: 'yum install dell_inventory_collector'
  -- up2date: 'up2date -i dell_inventory_collector'
  -- sles: 'rug install dell_inventory_collector'

4) re-bootstrap your system, following the instructions from (1) concerning bootstarp

5) install updates using:
    -- 'firmwaretool --update'
 or -- 'update_firmware'
 or -- 'inventory_firmware_gui'

6) enjoy!

Tested:
  -- PERC 3, 4, 5
  -- SAS 5
  -- BMC/DRAC/ESM
  -- SAS Backplane

Untested but available:
  -- HDD Dups
  -- MD1000, PV220

Known Issues:
  -- BMC for 6/7th generation (PE1750, PE26x0) systems will not apply because of an oddity in the way the XML is formatted for these systems. I am working on a workaround.