[announce] firmware-tools: easier bios updates in Linux

[Michael E Brown]

FYI, there was a typo in apply_updates, where the message referred to
'apply_update' (note the lack of 's'). This has been fixed and a new
version posted.
--
Michael

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 07:43 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:45:41AM +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm interested in such thing, but as many people here, yum wasn't installed
> > onto my system by dell before shipping it to me..where can i find the rpm to
> > install it on my PE1850  RHEL3 ES ? Maybe could a link to it be added to the
> > unofficial webpages...? Or did i missed it ?
> 
> RHEL3 uses up2date instead of yum, however, up2date can pull from yum
> repositories.  The announcement
> (http://linux.dell.com/firmware-tools/announce.html), as well as the
> fwupdate.com repo's web page, includes instructions for use with
> RHEL.  Briefly, it looks like:
> 
> # set up repos
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap.sh | bash
> wget -q -O - http://repo.fwupdate.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.sh | bash
> 
> # install firmware tools
> up2date -i firmware-addon-dell
> 
> # install BIOS update
> up2date --solvedeps=$(inventory_firmware -b -u)
> apply_updates
> 
> 
> It should be noted that the current repo setups work on RHEL{3,4},
> Fedora Core {3,4,5,devel}, and SLES9.
> 
> Thanks for your interest!
> Matt
>