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

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> 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?

So, two things:

1 - Yes, in fact your system is too old to be supported in this repo.

2 - you should _not_ have gotten an error message. Turns out our server
was busy again. Spam sucks, somebody is forging emails with a specific
return address that is sucking all our server address with bounces. :(

  --> under normal circumstances, you will be redirected to a "empty"
  repository if your server is not supported.

--
Michael