[RFC] RHEL3/4 - automatic setup for Dell system-specific repo

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:57:58PM -0400, Kuba Ober wrote:
> >     I intend to write this script and add it to firmware-addon-dell.
> > Does anybody have any feedback for this?
> 
> I use yum, so personally I don't care much: I'd use yum even if I had used 
> RHEL instead of CentOS.

Yes, I was hoping you CentOS guys would pick up on this... :)

> 
> It'd be nice to have an .rpm that, besides putting the repo file 
> in /etc/yum.repos.d, modifies /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources as part of its 
> postinstall script. That way both RHN and yum systems would be covered, and 
> since for CentOS one uses same dell packages as for respective RHEL, there 
> should be no other problems methinks.
> 
> The rpm in question is probably firmware-addon-dell, just as you said :)

Actually, firmware-addon-dell is not where I would put it, because of a
few issues. I intend to create a
"dellhw-repository-1.0-1.noarch.rpm" that people can
install. That is a little bit of work, though, and I want to iron out a
few of the other details before I do that, so I can make sure I do it
right the first time.

It is likely that the dellhw-repository RPM would have a "Requires:" on
the firmware-addon-dell RPM.
--
Michael

PS: this is exactly what the "dell-repository" RPM does today for the
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ repository.