RHEL 5.1, yum and bootstrap.cgi

[Mikolaj Kucharski]

Hi,

I have small issue with bootstrap.cgi. I didn't see problem before, so
not sure is that something new.

I have RHEL 5.1 and boostrap.cgi is run as part of bigger script which
installs different packages from various repos. One of them is Dell OM.

When bootstrap.cgi starts it installs

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 firmware-addon-dell     x86_64     2.1.2-1.1        dell-omsa-specific   56 k
Installing for dependencies:
 firmware-tools          noarch     2.1.2-4.1        dell-omsa-specific  203 k
 libsmbios               x86_64     2.1.0-1.1        dell-omsa-specific  1.3 M
 smbios-utils            x86_64     2.1.0-1.1        dell-omsa-specific  130 k


Then there is `yum clean all' with `--disableplugin=rhnplugin' parameter in
bootstrap.cgi:

$ wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | grep 'clean all'
            yum --disableplugin=rhnplugin clean all


But on RHEL 5.1 I have the following error:

# yum --disableplugin=rhnplugin clean all
Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
usage: yum [options] < grouplist, localinstall, groupinfo, localupdate,
resolvedep, erase, deplist, groupremove, makecache, upgrade, provides,
shell, install, whatprovides, groupinstall, update, groupupdate, info,
search, check-update, list, remove, clean, grouperase >

Command line error: no such option: --disableplugin


and the cache is not cleaned, so after that my script fails to install
anything from Dell's repos as yum(8) didn't reload the cache with new
dell-omsa-specific repo. Not a big issue as I've added `yum clean all'
after bootstrap.cgi, but I never seen problem with that before, although
I was using RHEL 5.2 with my script. It's first time when I'm using RHEL
5.1 with bootstrap.cgi.

Unfortunately yum's manual page says there is option `--disableplugin'.
Also I don't have rhnplugin plugin installed, anyway I'm not aware of
that.

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)

# rpm -q yum
yum-3.0.1-5.el5


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