new dell-dup package posted

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Ah, thanks for the reminder.

You will get two BIOS listings when dell_inventory_collector is installed. This is expected and not a problem. The reason is that the older bios packages have a name "system_bios(ven_0x9999_dev_0x9999)", but the dell inventory collector produces a new name "dup_component_0x00159" (iirc). The two should coexist just fine. I'm looking into what it would take to merge them, but that is down my list for now.
--
Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: Tarun Reddy [mailto:treddy at rallydev.com]
Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 4:55 PM
To: Brown, Michael E
Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: new dell-dup package posted
 
So I just noticed one other thing...

All of the machines now have two listings for the System BIOS.

[root at kauai ~]# update_firmware
No handlers could be found for logger "trace.firmwaretools"

Running system inventory...

Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
Checking BIOS - a07
	Available: dell_dup_componentid_00159 - a07
	Did not find a newer package to install that meets all installation  
checks.
Checking System BIOS for PowerEdge 1800 - a07
	Available: system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0183) - a07
	Did not find a newer package to install that meets all installation  
checks.
Checking CERC SATA RAID 2 PCI SATA 6ch (DellCorsair) Firmware -  
4.1.0.7419
	Available:  
pci_firmware(ven_0x9005_dev_0x0285_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x0291) -  
4.1.0.7419
	Did not find a newer package to install that meets all installation  
checks.

Is this because I have the old package installed? Should I remove it?

Tarun


On Mar 7, 2008, at 10:05 AM, <Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com> <Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com 
 > wrote:

> Dell-dup will eventually have a dell_inventory_collector dependency.  
> I didnt want to add that dep until I got all of the quirks ironed  
> out. What will probably happen is that I will add  
> dell_inventory_collector to the bootstrap list inf firmware-addon- 
> dell.
> --
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tarun Reddy [mailto:treddy at rallydev.com]
> Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 10:56 AM
> To: Brown, Michael E
> Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Re: new dell-dup package posted
>
> Wow. Bootstrap_firmware is much faster!
>
> Should the new dell-dup package have a dependancy on the
> dell_inventory_collector? Without dell_inventory_collector, I don't
> get any firmware updates. Adding it, I get all additional (I assume
> DUP based) updates such as BMC_Firmware, RAC, SAS, and Server_BIOS
> packages.
>
> Thanks,
> Tarun
>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:21 AM, <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
>
>> I have posted a new version of dell-dup to the repository. This
>> version has several enhancements. For everybody who was hitting the
>> previous traceback error, please test with this new version and
>> report back.
>>
>> Enhancements:
>> -- Speed: caches inventory from the inventory collector across  
>> calls  
>> for huge speed improvement
>> -- fault tolerance: should no longer crash on errors from the  
>> inventory collector
>> -- disabled inventory from Dell DUPs: This is a two-edged sword. We  
>> get huge speed improvements by not running multiple dup inventory
>> modules, but we also now require dell_inventory_collector or DUPs
>> cannot be used.
>>
>> --
>> Michael
>>
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