repository dell-omsa-indep for rhel 5 broken?

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Peter Östlin wrote:

> On CentOS 5.0 I can not use yum towards:
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh50
>
> Doing a 'yum search ipmi ' with only this url enabled fails (error msg
> below). Doing the same search on fedora 10 works fine.
>
> Browsing the archives and I see a simular issue:
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2008-October/037586.html
>
> Could it be that the repos was created using a recent version of
> createrepo which is not compatible with older versions of yum?
>
> On the CentOS machine I have - yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2
> On the fedora machine I have - yum-3.2.21-2
>
> Anybody sucessfully using the repos on CentOS5?

I'm using this repo on CentOS 5.3, which comes with  
yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos. Any reason you haven't upgraded from CentOS  
5.0?

Also, I'm not pointing yum to that URL directly, but I have used the  
bootstrap script as per http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/OMSA

Nils Breunese.