Repository status -- New Wiki pages, fwupdate.com moved.

[Michael E Brown]

This is a status email to let everybody know what is going on with the
Dell repositories.

Main Dell Repositories start page:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository

See the BRAND NEW Troubleshooting and FAQ Page:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/FAQ

If you have suggestions for new FAQ entries, please send them to the
mailing list.

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Hardware repository: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware
Documentation: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware
Status: online, no known problems
Issues: all people who have reported issues to the
linux-poweredge at dell.com mailing list in the past couple weeks have had
their issues resolved.

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Software repository: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software
Documentation: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/software
Status: online, no known problems

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Firmware repository: http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware
Documentation: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
Status: BETA! Online w/issues (see below)
News: This is the former "fwupdate.com" repository. We have gotten
permission to allow public access to this repository from
linux.dell.com. This is where it has always lived, but access was
restricted such that only the fwupdate.com site could mirror it.

This site hosts bios updates in firmware-tools format for Dell systems.
This is BETA software, community-supported only. Use at your own risk,
etc.

If you have already subscribed to the old fwupdate.com repository, there
is a new "dell-firmware-repository" RPM that obsoletes the old
"fwupdate-repository" RPM. If you use 'yum' to upgrade, this will happen
automatically and your system will be updated to point at the
linux.dell.com version. If you use 'up2date' you will need to manually
"up2date -u dell-firmware-repository" to get up2date to install the new
RPM.

We will likely turn off the fwupdate.com repository sometime by the end
of the year.

Current issues:
 -- BMC images are posted even though the bmc flash utility is not in
 the software repository. (It is currently eating systems and so has not
 been posted.)

 -- extract script is having problems:
    -- Not all bios images are updated to release -16. Currently
    investigating reason.  
    -- Not all PERC firmware images have been updated to latest release.
    Currently under investigation. (extract script is having problems)
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Michael Brown
Dell Linux repositories maintainer.