Setting up internal repo...

[Flaherty, Patrick]

I've had similar problems to BJ,
Last year when the hardware/software repos were installed on a machine,
say a 2950:

 # yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
 # yum -y update
 # yum -y install $(bootstrap_firmware -b)
 # update_firmware

update_firmware would install the latest available bios. That's no
longer the case. I forget the exact version, but update firmware now
reports I have the latest everything, where as suu has updates for bios
and perc. So I switched back to copying around suu disks and mounting
them loopback.

The other annoying thing I've found with setting up a local repo, is the
.htaccess files aren't rsync'd, so if the cgis ever move I have to go
screwing about in my http conf files. Here's my rsync command.
 # /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete rsync://linux.dell.com/repo"

Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com 
> [mailto:firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On 
> Behalf Of Matt_Domsch at dell.com
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:19 PM
> To: wdierkes at 5dollarwhitebox.org; 
> firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: RE: Setting up internal repo...
> 
> These are presently available as "dell-dup" RPMs (meaning 
> they require firmware-tools, and the dell-dup RPM that's part 
> of the firmware-tools suite).
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/cross-distro/RPMS/noarch/
> 
> Server_BIOS_componentid_00159_for_PowerEdge_2950-2.4.3-21.noarch.rpm
> Server_BIOS_10G_componentid_00159_for_PowerEdge_r900-01.01.09-
> 21.noarch.
> rpm
> Server_BIOS_componentid_00159_for_PowerEdge_2970-3.0.3-21.noarch.rpm
> 
> You will need the firmware-tools packages from the Dell 
> Community repository http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/
> to be able to install and use these.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO 
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com
> [mailto:firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On 
> Behalf Of BJ Dierkes
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:07 PM
> To: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: Setting up internal repo...
> 
> 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!
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