repository dell-omsa-indep for rhel 5 broken?

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Peter Östlin wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
> <nils at lemonbit.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Upgrading yum solves the issue. The main reason I have an older
> version is that we (my company) have customers with systems based on
> CentOS 5.0, with security patches and other important packages added.

If you're choosing to not install CentOS updates, then you'll come  
across problems like these. As far as I'm concerned CentOS 5.3 is  
CentOS 5.0 with security patches.

> Still, I would imaging there still are quite a number of 5.0 systems
> out there. CentOS 4 are still on yum-2.x.x if I understand correctly.
> I have no such system to test on but I imagine there might be problems
> there as well.

I haven't heard of any on this list, but I'm not using CentOS 4 on any  
Dell machines, so I wouldn't know. Yes, CentOS 4.7 comes with 2.x:  
yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos. But it could be a 3.x-specific bug, right?

Nils Breunese.