Software and Firmware repositories broken with openSUSE 10.3?

[Philip Tait]

Strange, I just reconfirmed the procedure on another 10.3 box here...

We probably need to take this to an openSUSE forum - this looks an
openSUSE package management problem, rather than a Dell issue.

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 00:24 +0100, Kevin Davidson wrote:
> 
> On 6 May 2008, at 23:54, Philip Tait wrote:
> 
> > A stray '/' got in there - now fixed.
> > 
> > I also updated the page for the 10.2 zypper subcommand difference
> > you
> > pointed out. I was able to install srvadmin-base on a 2950 running
> > 10.2,
> > using the modified instructions.
> > 
> 
> 
> nduserver:~ # zypper ar
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.4/platform_independent/suse10_64 dell-hw-indep
> * Adding repository 'dell-hw-indep'
> Repository 'dell-hw-indep' successfully added:
> Enabled: Yes
> Autorefresh: Yes
> URL:
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.4/platform_independent/suse10_64
> nduserver:~ # zypper in smbios-utils
> Refreshing 'dell-hw-indep'
> * Building repository 'dell-hw-indep' cache
> Refreshing 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates'
> * Cleaning repository 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates' cache
> * Building repository 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates' cache
> * Reading repository 'dell-hw-indep' cache
> * Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-OSS-KDE 10.3' cache
> * Reading repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' cache
> * Reading repository 'Education:server' cache
> * Reading repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' cache
> * Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates' cache
> * Reading installed packages [100%]
> 
> 
> package 'smbios-utils' not found
> Nothing to do.
> 
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