Dell Linux community repository beta - software repository update

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

The reason it isnt out of beta yet is that I have yet to finish testing all of the upgrade scenarios from old software repo -> community repo. :(  I made a mess for myself by supporting so many different OSes, that I feel somewhat obligated to do a bit of testing before I throw the switch.

You will need to set up the community repo, as the firmware repo requires newer firmware-addon-dell than is in EPEL. :(   (turns out there arent enough hours in the day to update that software everywhere it needs updating.)
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Hruby [mailto:nhruby at gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 11/7/2008 12:57 PM
To: Brown, Michael E
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: Dell Linux community repository beta - software repository update
 
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:44 PM,  <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> Took me long enough to respond to the last email that I didnt see this one. :)

Heh.  No worries.  Sorry, rereading my first email, it sounds snotty,
which wasn't the intention.  The email I saw and responded to said the
community repo was in beta, but I saw nothing further saying it was
out of beta.  So, I was  un-articulately asking if there were still
beta-issues or if I found a new buglet.  I know that all of the repos
represent a lot of work on your part, and for that I say "Thanks!"

> Yes, I already run yum-arch, it appears that yum-arch doesnt like the RPMs built by the opensuse build service and completely barfs, producing zero-length header.info files. :(

Appears to be a new buglet.  I see dell-firmware-addon is in EPEL so
I'll probably use that, or manually install the rpm's for this one
1950 that's giving me fits at the moment.

Is it Monday?

-n
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