This is correct, the latest firmware updates take a little bit to get packaged and tested before they get pushed to the repo.
I also haven't figured out how to only update firmware for specific devices. With the inventory_firmware and update_firmware commands, it looks for updates and applies all updates at once.
As for creating a local mirror, a simple rsync grabs it (I exclude everything I don't need)
rsync --progress --delete -avHz --exclude=rh30 --exclude=rh30_64 --exclude=rh40 --exclude=rh40_64 --exclude='SLES_*' --exclude='SLE_*' --exclude='suse*' --exclude='sles*' linux.dell.com::repo/hardware/OMSA_7.1/ /yumrepo/repos/dell/hardware/OMSA_7.1/
I also don't use the community repo...I haven't found anything I need in there.
I'll attach the yum repo file I use for my local repo. A 'yum install srvadmin-all dell_ft_install' will grab what you need for firmware tools and OpenManage, and then a 'yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)' will grab all your hardware specific firmware.
On 02/01/2013 08:27 AM, Mikael Fridh wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Rafał Radecki radecki.rafal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all.
I am currently gathering information about firmware update on Dell PowerEdge machines. I've found http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware-tools_announcement and https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ It is an unofficial, community supported repository.
Depending on your hardware you will have support here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware
I create a local mirror via rsync and use for all the Dell servers.
What are your experiences: should I perform firmware updates the traditional way by downloading *.bin packages from Dell and run them manually or should I use this repo? Is this repo "safe" and releases stable packages?
I'm usually fine with the hardware repo above unless I need something really new (some versions that's not yet released in the firmware repo as rpms).
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