BMC packages for dell-bmcflash/firmware-tools?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 10:05:45 CDT 2007


On 8/12/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:07:01AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On 8/9/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> > Will let you know today. Will put the images up somewhere they can be
> > snarfed without killing my network (1 cd for image, 1 cd for
> > .src.rpms). Like I said.. I just need the diagnostic packages in rpm
> > format and I am in my happy place :).
>
> Is there a way to make livecd-tools spit out CD/DVD images with SRPMS easily,
> the SRPMS that match what went into creation of the live CD/DVD/USB ?
> That's the only piece I needed to automate creation of this using
> CentOS.
>
> And I couldn't fit it on a single CD; either DVD or bootable USB key
> would be necessary, which is a shame.  I didn't spend too much time
> trying to eliminate packages - some, but was still ~100MB too big
> IIRC.
>

The dropped GNOME and emacs and went with XFCE.  My main problem is
getting it to install the serveradmin items at the moment which I
can't get to bypass their self-checks to see that they are being built
on non OMSA hardware.

My src.rpm hack at the moment is to parse

Installing XXXX

rpm -qp $LOCAL_CENTOS_TREE/RPMS/XXXX*rpm --qf='%{SOURCERPM}\n'

sort | uniq | shake | bake | burn into a cdrom


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"



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