[testing] OMSA 5.3 available in yum repositories

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

All,
    After a much-too-long delay, I am happy to say that we now have, for testing, OMSA 5.3 available in the Dell hardware repository at http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware. I would like to see some people test this and report back. After I have gotten a few success reports, I will change this repository to be the default repository sometime next week.

    To install OMSA 5.3, bootstrap the repository as normal, then change the config as follows:

YUM:
  In both /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-hw-indep-repository.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-hw-specific-repository.repo, find the string "repo_config=$repo_config", and change it to read, "repo_config=OMSA_5.3".

UP2DATE:
  same as yum, except you need to change the string in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources in two places, rather than in the yum repository files.

SUSE 10:
  No idea. Anybody who knows how to do this should let me know. :)  See above for the general outline.

    Thanks go to Jeff Mendoza from the OMSA team who has been working on this with me. He is getting up to speed on the repository configuration and layout and will be helping out with the repository.

    Note that the repository is still community-support only.
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Michael Brown