RHEL 4: problem installing OpenManage Server Administrator with up2date

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:29:45PM -0400, Kevin Eberman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Subsequent to the OMSA moving into the "hardware" repository, I can no
> longer install OMSA via up2date.
> 
> It appears the repo_config and dellsysidpluginver variables are not be
> configured properly.  Please note my output below.

repo_config defaults to 'latest' on the server side if it is not set.

dellsysidpluginver is only for debugging. It helps me know when somebody
has an out of date plugin. (And it is not substituted in up2date, only
yum).

The actual problem is that your $basearch variable isnt getting
replaced. Why? I have no idea.

> 
> [root at lin3860 rhn]# wget -q -O -
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> 
> Downloading GPG key:
> http://linux.dell.com//repo/hardware/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
> 
>     Importing key into RPM.
> 
> Downloading GPG key:
> http://linux.dell.com//repo/hardware/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios
> 
>     Importing key into RPM.
> 
> Installing platform-independent RPM:
> dell-hw-indep-repository-1-10.el4.noarch.rpm
> 
>  
> 
> Installing platform-specific repository RPM.
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=$base
> arch&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver

this is the problem here. Up2date should be substituting $basearch with
i386 or x86_64.

Which update level are you running for EL4?

--
Michael