OSMA 5 on Fedora Core 4

[Greg Dickie]

I'd humbly suggest that the scriplet gets changed to just warn about
using an untested distro but continues nontheless.

Greg


On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:03 +0100, Steven Wayne wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:56:24PM +0100, Robert Ham wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:56:24 +0100
> > From: Robert Ham <robert_ham at bristol-city.gov.uk>
> > Subject: OSMA 5 on Fedora Core 4
> > To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I administer a PowerEdge 4300 which has Fedora Core 4 installed on it.  I've been trying to get OSMA installed.  Unfortunately, I get this:
> > 
> > [edisroh at genesis RPMS]$ pwd
> > /home/edisroh/no-backup/omsa5/linux/RPMS
> > [edisroh at genesis RPMS]$ sudo rpm -ivh srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463.i386.rpm
> > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> > srvadmin-deng: not supported on this system (sysid=007C)
> > error: %pre(srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> > error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463
> > [edisroh at genesis RPMS]$
> > 
> > 
> > I must say, I find this most disturbing.  No software has failed, and
> > yet an error has been raised.  The software has been explicitly designed
> > to fail for a particular class of users.  A decision was made by a
> > person to reduce the operating ability of their software; to purposely
> > break an otherwise unbroken tool.  What reason is there for this
> > insanity?
>  
> Hi,
> 
> I agree, but I have a fix.
> 
> Run /opt/dell/srvadmin/omil/prereqcheck/sysreport and get your machine ID.
> 
> vi /opt/dell/srvadmin/omil/prereqcheck/syslist.txt and add your machine. 
> 
> Steven.
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Greg Dickie
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