[RFC] Dell hardware-specific repositories -- testers and feedback needed

[Ben]

I'm wondering if PowerEdge 1400SC models aren't supported.  I remember 
something about them perhaps not being, but that's the only box I've really 
got to play with at the moment.

Having done:

[root at skillet ~]# wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash

I then did:

[root at skillet ~]# up2date -i dellhw-repository
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/mirrors.pl?osname=el4
using mirror: http://linux.dell.com//repo/software/el4

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-software...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
dellhw-repository                       2              1.el4 
noarch


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...

Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
There was an error downloading: 
http://linux.dell.com//repo/software/el4/headers/srvadmin-racser-0-5.2.0-460.i386.hdr
#######################################
Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
#######################################
Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
########################################
dellhw-repository-2-1.el4.n ########################## Done.
firmware-addon-dell-1.2.11- ########################## Done.
firmware-tools-1.2.5-1.el4. ########################## Done.
libsmbios-bin-0.13.5-1.el4. ########################## Done.
libsmbios-libs-0.13.5-1.el4 ########################## Done.
Preparing              ########################################### [100%]

Installing...
    1:libsmbios-libs         ########################################### [100%]
    2:libsmbios-bin          ########################################### [100%]
    3:firmware-tools         ########################################### [100%]
    4:firmware-addon-dell    ########################################### [100%]
    5:dellhw-repository      ########################################### [100%]
The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:

Name                                    Version        Release
--------------------------------------------------------------
firmware-addon-dell                     1.2.11         1.el4
firmware-tools                          1.2.5          1.el4
libsmbios-bin                           0.13.5         1.el4
libsmbios-libs                          0.13.5         1.el4


And then did this again:

[root at skillet ~]# up2date -i dellhw-repository
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/mirrors.pl?osname=el4
using mirror: http://linux.dell.com//repo/software/el4
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?sys_ven_id=0x1028&sys_dev_id=0x00ce&osname=el4.i386&up2date_repo_autoconf=1.2.11
using mirror: <TITLE>Error</TITLE>
<TITLE>Error</TITLE>/headers/header.info is of an unknown URL type
(<class exceptions.IOError at 0xb7f5547c>, <exceptions.IOError instance at 0xb771efcc>, <traceback object at 0xb771d89c>)
exceptions.IOError

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-software...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-hardware-ven_0x1028_dev_0x00ce...

Fetching obsoletes list for <TITLE>Error</TITLE>...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------


The following packages you requested are already updated:
dellhw-repository
[root at skillet ~]#


So, is my system just too old/not supported?

Ben
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