RHEL 4: problem installing OpenManage Server Administrator with up2date

[Kevin Eberman]

Hi,

Below, is my system information, per your question.  Let me know if you
need more/different info to help resolve.  As a work around, what would
I need in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file to get this going?

[root at lin3860 ~]# uname -a
Linux lin3860 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
[root at lin3860 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)
[root at lin3860 ~]# up2date --version
Red Hat Update Agent v
Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under terms of the GPL.


...  additionally, I modified /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.  Where the was
$basearch, I replaced that with i386.  Specifically:

#BEGIN dell-hw-indep-repository
# This block is managed by the dell-hw-indep-repository RPM.

yum dell-hw-indep-repository
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386&
repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver&redirect
=1&redir_path=
yum-mirror dell-hw-indep-repository
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386&
repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver



After that, I was able to run up2date -ivv dell-hw-specific-repository 

Again, what was added to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources did not have the
$basearch variable set.  I set it again to i386, but it couldn't find
the packages when I tried up2date -ivv srvadmin-all

yum dell-hw-specific-repository
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?sys_ven_id=0x1028&sys_dev
_id=0x01E6&osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpl
uginver=up2date&redirect=1&redir_path=
yum-mirror dell-hw-specific-repository
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?sys_ven_id=0x1028&sys_dev
_id=0x01E6&osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpl
uginver=up2date


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael E Brown [mailto:Michael_E_Brown at dell.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:29 PM
To: Kevin Eberman
Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: RHEL 4: problem installing OpenManage Server Administrator
with up2date

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