[CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?

Fri Feb 1 14:17:18 UTC 2013
Phil Gardner <phil.gardnerjr at gmail.com>

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 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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[dell-omsa-indep]
name=Dell OMSA repository - Hardware independent
type=rpm-md
mirrorlist=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osname=el$releasever&basearch=$basearch&native=1&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
    http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios
enabled=1
failover=priority
bootstrapurl=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi


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gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-dell
    http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/RPM-GPG-KEY-libsmbios
enabled=1
failover=priority
bootstrapurl=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi