Upgrading OMSA on RHEL4

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 07:16:49PM +0100, Andrew Hall wrote:
> Thanks Michael.
> 
> I did install svradmin-all a while ago using the old Dell software
> repo (this is how I have OMSA 5.0 installed) but have now setup the
> hardware repo following these instructions...
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/
> 
> However, when I then run...
> 
> yum update srvadmin-all
> 
> It just says...
> 
> Could not find update match for srvadmin-all
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

This is likely because you have been redirected to the emptyrepo. I need
your /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-hw-specific-repository.repo mirrorlist= line,
as well as your IP address so I can look through my server logs.

Do you have plugins enabled in your yum config?  (disabled plugins cause
redirection to the emptyrepo).

> 
> And a "yum search srvadmin-all" just shows me the one I have
> installed, which is version 1.0
> 
> Here's the output of getSystemId...
> 
> Libsmbios:    0.13.7
> System ID:    0x01B2
> Service Tag:  DGV0H2J
> Express Service Code: 29317719403
> Product Name: PowerEdge 2950

Supported system, good.


> BIOS Version: 1.1.0
> Vendor:       Dell Inc.
> Is Dell:      1
> 
> Here's the output of /etc/redhat-release...
> 
> CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)

Second line was probably added to make the srvadmin-install script
work.

> 
> Please note that the system is Centos 4.4, and I can't remember why I
> needed to add the second line, but I think it had something to do with
> getting certain packages to install.
> 
> uname -a shows...
> 
> Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:21:39 CDT 2006 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> The Dell related repos under /etc/yum.repos.d are...
> 
> dell-hw-indep-repository.repo
> dell-hw-specific-repository.repo
> dell.repo

Good.

--
Michael

> 
> I hope this is enough information to go on!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy.
> 
> >
> >If you installed from the CD, you would not have the "srvadmin-all" rpm
> >installed. This is not that big of a deal, as the individual RPMS should
> >upgrade just fine. It just wont install any new OMSA components that are
> >not present in OM 5.0. (I dont think there are any.)
> >
> >> Are those packages classed as a group so I can do this?
> >
> >Two options (depending on if you have 'yum' installed or if you are
> >using up2date):
> >1) "up2date -u" or "yum upgrade":  This will work.
> >
> >2) "up2date -i srvadmin-all" or "yum install srvadmin-all": This will
> >upgrade your current OMSA install and additionally install any
> >components you dont currently have installed.
> >
> >--
> >Michael
> >