[CentOS] OT: Antwort: Re: Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?

Fri Feb 1 14:06:23 UTC 2013
Phil Gardner <phil.gardnerjr at gmail.com>

They provide an official repo for the proliant support pack (PSP), but I
don't think they offer firmware updates via yum. I honestly haven't
needed it, unlike Dell, whose support techs insist that I update
firmware as the first step to troubleshooting a failed hard drive or bad
memory modules...

http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/ServicePackforProLiant/rhel/6/x86_64/current/

repoview -
http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/ServicePackforProLiant/rhel/6/x86_64/current/repoview/

On 02/01/2013 08:31 AM, Andreas Reschke wrote:
> centos-bounces at centos.org wrote on 01.02.2013 14:27:19:
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>> Mikael Fridh <frimik at gmail.com> 
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>> Re: [CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
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>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at 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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> Does anybody know if there is the same repo from HP?
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