firmware-tools No clifuncs module

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:21:09PM +0100, Simon Welch wrote:
> Michael
> 
> Have done that and removed old version but when performing up2date -i the
> following error is reported, is the $releasever held anywhere else?

Not that I know of.

> 
> There was an error downloading:
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/rhel4//headers/firmware-tools-0-1.2.5-1.el3.noarch.hdr

Is there an option to up2date to clean out the cache?
--
Michael

> 
> Simon
> 
> On 3/24/07, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:39:05PM +0000, Simon Welch wrote:
> >> Following the announcement of the availablity of the firmware repo I
> >have
> >> tried installing the required tools as detailed on the FWupdate page but
> >> receive the following error.
> >>
> >> inventory_firmware
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>  File "/usr/bin/inventory_firmware", line 27, in ?
> >>    import clifuncs
> >> ImportError: No module named clifuncs
> >>
> >> I have removed firmware-tools and firmware-addons-dell from the repo but
> >> still same error. Are these purley for RHEL3 as we are using RHEL4?
> >
> >Ah, yes. There is a bug in RHEL4 recently reported where it doenst
> >properly substitute $releasever variable.
> >
> >go into /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources and hardcode '4' where you see
> >$releasever.
> >
> >Red Hat has committed a fix, which I believe will be in RHEL4.5 coming up.
> >When I get a couple minutes, I will probably see if there is anything I can
> >do to fix that.
> >--
> >Michael
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >> Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
> >> ########################################
> >> firmware-addon-dell-1.2.5-1 ########################## Done.
> >> firmware-tools-1.2.5-1.el3. ########################## Done.
> >> Preparing              ###########################################
> >[100%]
> >>
> >> Installing...
> >>   1:firmware-tools         ###########################################
> >> [100%]
> >>   2:firmware-addon-dell    ###########################################
> >> [100%]
> >> The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy
> >dependencies:
> >>
> >> Name                                    Version        Release
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> firmware-tools                          1.2.5          1.el3
> >
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