errors? on OMSA RPM install on CentOS5

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:31:42AM -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> >  The error message above refers to /tmp/dellupdatepackage... and this
> >  path is only used by Dell Update Packages as far as I can see. So, the
> >  only way I can see that this situation would have happened is if
> >  something had been run from support.dell.com. This is usually a BIOS
> >  update or a BMC update or something like that. There is no other way
> >  that I can see where you would ever get a reference to
> >  /tmp/dellupdatepackage any other way.
> 
> Yes BIOS/BMC updates but not OMSA stuff. Why aren't the two things
> exclusive? Here's the relevant RPM install log (rpm -q --last , start
> from the bottom of the list):

Ok, that makes sense, then. Your original install failure was due to
a DUP that left some RPMs installed (and installed in an
incorrect place, at that, using --prefix=/tmp/dellupdatepackage...).

There isnt much I can do in any of my scripting to guard against this.
(And yes, the firmware-tools DUP packages can run into the same issue,
unfortunately.) ***DUP rant redacted***

Thanks for the information. I really wanted to get to the bottom of your
failure because it was a very wierd situation I had not seen before. So
now I know the proper way to fix this if somebody else runs into it.
--
Michael