OMSA yum repository on FC5

[Robin Bowes]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:30:43AM +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get the OMSA software installed on a PowerEdge 1850
>> running FC5.
> 
> OMSA 4.5 isn't expected to work on FC5...

Ah, shame.

>> First, a general comment: why bother with the bootstrap script? Why not
>> just provide dell.repo files for all supported platforms?
> 
> Just to make it "simple" we think.

I think what you do is give the impression that it should work, but then
it doesn't!

>> Anyway, here's how I got on:
>>
>> 1. The location of the Vendor GPG keys is wrong for FC5 (and probably
>> for other Fedroa versions. It should be:
>>
>> 	rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-N/RPM-GPG-KEY
>>
>> the /doc/ is missing on the web page.
> 
> Fixed, thanks.
>  
>> 2. Running bootstrap.sh: there is no dell-repository-9-0.fc5.noarch.rpm
> 
> oops.  will fix asap.
>  
>> 3. Manually download dell-repository-9-0.fc4.noarch.rpm and install
>> 4. Edit dell.repo and replace "4" with "5".
> 
> 
>  
>> 5. Try: yum install srvadmin-all
>> No Match for argument: srvadmin-all
>> Nothing to do
>>
>> I'm not sure where to go from here.
> 
> srvadmin-* packages aren't available in the FC* directories, because
> FC* aren't OMSA-supported OSs.  The srvadmin-* packages are in the
> RHEL[34] directories because those are OMSA-supported OSs.
> 
> There's not a lot of experience reported on this list of people making
> OMSA work on FC.  What we posted in the repos for RHEL[34] are the
> official OMSA RPMs (without modification).  If there's evidence we can
> do likewise for FCx, I'd be open to it.  But I think it's unlikely to
> work on FCx given the current kernel dependencies.  This may get
> better when OMSA 5.0 is released of course.

I'd be happy to have a go at installing on FC5 if you can give me a list
of packages that need to be installed and the SRPMS are available.

As it is, I don't see any instructions other than "install the srvadmin
packages".

What's the release timescale for v5?

Thanks,

R.