Dell Community Repository Setup

[Jeff]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Jeff <jlar310 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Oops, I meant 'hardware' repo.

> 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