Setting up internal repo...

[BJ Dierkes]

Hello all,

Apologies for any lack of research, I'm trying to find all the info I  
need else where, however am also working on a time line.  The firmware  
tools are working great for our project to update ...  well, a lot of  
Dell's BIOS.  The problem I'm coming across is that the repos out  
there do not provide the latest versions of bios firmware we need.

For example:

$ !om
omreport chassis bios
BIOS Information

Manufacturer : Dell Inc.
Version      : 2.3.1
Release Date : 04/29/2008


This is a 2950, and we need to go to the 2.4.3 release... actually my  
exact needs are:

2950: 2.4.3
2970: 3.0.3
R900: 1.1.9


I have all the .BIN files needed to manually update to this, but using  
firmware tools I'm having a hard time finding:

a) Where firmware-tools pulls these .BIN files from
b) Where it stores them locally


If possible, I'd be perfectly happy with setting up my own repo to  
store the .BIN files we need...  but need a bit of insight on how that  
would be possible.  Any docs out there on how .BIN files are stored  
(repo) and obtained?

Because the BIOS versions we are getting from firmware-tools are from  
last summer (I believe) I have a feeling I'm missing something.  If it  
matters at all... the only thing I've really changed from the yum  
standpoint is I removed the 'baseurl' setting in /etc/yum.repos.d/dell- 
community-repository.repo and am just using the mirrorlist= option to  
obtain the proper repo.

Thanks for any help!