Dell Community Repository Setup

[Jeff]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Not sure about the community repository, but with the software
repository (OpenManage), the bootstrap.cgi script uses server side
includes to be smart about the location from which it was downloaded.
If you mirror the repository (all or part) to a local system under
your control and serve it up with Apache, you can do:

wget -q -O - http://myrepos.mydomain.com/path/to/files/bootstrap.cgi | bash

and everything will come from your servers, including the yum
repository configuration for package installation and updates. Nothing
will ever download directly from Dell. I have not used the community
repo, but I would not be surprised if the bootstrap script behaved in
the same way.

-- 
Jeff