F7 and Dell Hardware Repository

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:52:31AM +1100, Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> I have a Poweredge 6450 with a fresh install of Fedora 7 on it and want 
> to install OMSA.
> 
> I have searched the archives of this list and understand that Fedora is 
> unsupported by the Hardware repository.  While reading previous posts I 
> came across this one:
> 
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-July/032089.html
> 
> which gives basic instructions for installing OMSA on a Fedora system.
> 
> I have hit a problem with the first step
> 
>    "bootstrap the Dell Hardware repo"
> 
> When I follow the bootstrapping instructions the GPG keys are downloaded 
> successfully, but I get the following error:
> 
> "Failed to download RPM: 
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/emptyrepo//dell-hw-indep-repository-1-14.fc7.noarch.rpm"
> 
> This isn't surprising given that Fedora isn't supported, I wouldn't 
> expect there to be an rpm for it.
> 
> My next step was to take the Dell Software repository configuration 
> file, duplicate it, then modify it with my best guess as to the required 
> values.  It seemed worth a try, however I did note the warning about 
> manual repo configuration.  This is the contents of my config file 
> dell-hardware-repository.repo
> 
> 
> [dell-hardware]
> name=Dell Hardware
> mirrorlist=http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el5&basearch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
>         file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios

There are actually *two* repositories. One is the hardware-independent
repository (no OMSA). The other is a hardware-specific repository that
is specific to your OS/System model. 

When you set up the above, you only get the hw-indep repository. To get
the hw-specific repo, you basically set it up almost the same, with a
couple more variables at the end sys_ven_id=, sys_dev_is=. Then you have
to have the 'dellsysid' yum plugin installed to fill in these variables
(included in firmware-addon-dell RPM, which should install fine on F7
from the 'software' repo.)

So, basically, you will end up with *two* dell-*.repo files. (or one
file with both repos...)

be advised that once you get the OMSA RPMs installed, it is non-trivial
to get them to actually run... :(
--
Michael