Dell Linux community repository beta - software repository update

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Yes, actually, it is supposed to work. :)

After digging around on this for a bit, I see that there is a problem with the up2date repo for rhel4. The headers/ directory has an empty header.info file. Investigating further, it appears that the RPMs generated by the opensuse build service are not able to be processed by yum-arch.

I have an open bug with Novell on this and am waiting for some answer from Novell. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434890 I've updated the bug with additional information that it also affects RHEL4.
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Hruby [mailto:nhruby at gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 11/7/2008 10:50 AM
To: Brown, Michael E
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: Dell Linux community repository beta - software repository update
 
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:58 PM,  <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> After several months of work, I am ready to announce a beta period for the Dell Community Linux repository at http://linux.dell.com/repo/community. When complete, this repository will be the replacement for the current software repository. Please read the details on the repository homepage.

Is this supposed to be working?

I've installed the community and firmware repos through the bootstrap
scripts and now get:

> [root at machine 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp]# up2date -i firmware-addon-dell
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/mirrors.pl?dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
> using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/cross-distro
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/community//mirrors.cgi/osname=el4&basearch=i386
> using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/content/el4-i386
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: my-extras...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-firmware-repository...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-community-repository...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> ########################################
>
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> firmware-addon-dell
> [root at machine 2.6.9-78.0.5.ELsmp]#

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