Dell Community Repository Setup

[Jack Neely]

Folks,

I'm sure we can agree that the Dell community Yum repositories are overly
useful.  I'd like to include a method for my users to setup the Dell
repositories from the supported set of packages I provide.  However, I
can't, in good conscious tell my users to simply

    wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/bootstrap.cgi | bash

as root.  There is no way to verify the script the user got came from
Dell or has had any local testing.

What I'd like to do is include the dell-community-repository package in
my own yum repos signed with my key.  Users can simply yum install that
package and then have access to the Dell repositories.  This is what
rpm.livna.org and rpmfusion.org does to distribute the configuration for
their repositories.

However, the dell-community-repository does the same wget in the %post.
Compounded with the fact that if the above script hasn't run before the
package can't find the proper URL to pass to wget.  Again, packages that
suck random things off the internet, run them as root, no verification,
no reproducibility.  

Is there interest in handling the configuration setup for the Dell yum
repos like rpmfusion.org?  

    http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

I've patched up the package a bit.  You can find the .spec in my rpm
build system here:

    https://svn.linux.ncsu.edu/svn/clspackages/rpms/dell-community-repository/EL5/

This is for RHEL 5, but I thought it would help.

Jack Neely
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Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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