Dell Linux community repository beta - software repository update

[Nathan Hruby]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:57 PM,  <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> Can you try again? I *may* have resolved this problem.

Indeed you did!  Thanks!

>From "up2date --dry-run --show-channels -i firmware-addon-dell"

Name                          Version        Rel             Channel
----------------------------------------------------------------------
firmware-addon-dell           2.1.2          4.1
dell-community-repository
firmware-tools                2.1.2          4.1
dell-community-repository
smbios-utils                  2.1.0          1.2
dell-community-repository
libsmbios                     2.1.0          1.2
dell-community-repository

The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:

Name                                    Version        Release
--------------------------------------------------------------
firmware-tools                          2.1.2          4.1
smbios-utils                            2.1.0          1.2
libsmbios                               2.1.0          1.2

> Thanks,
> 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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