[CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
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. 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? Best regards, Rafal Radecki. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
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? This is a good resource: https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge. Personally, I prefer the repo over both .bin packages and Lifecycle controller updates. However, there are sometimes problems with the repo, in particular after new releases. The mailing list is the canonical place for reporting, and it is monitored by Dell employees. The best possible scenario is a local mirror of the repository, but I haven't yet figured out how to configure machines to use it; not sure whether yum or httpd config is the problem. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@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). -- Mikael ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
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 $(bootstrap_firmware)' will grab all your hardware specific firmware. On 02/01/2013 08:27 AM, Mikael Fridh wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I am currently gathering information about firmware update on Dell PowerEdge machines. I've found http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware-tools_announcement and https://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ It is an unofficial, community supported repository. Depending on your hardware you will have support here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware I create a local mirror via rsync and use for all the Dell servers. What are your experiences: should I perform firmware updates the traditional way by downloading *.bin packages from Dell and run them manually or should I use this repo? Is this repo safe and releases stable packages? I'm usually fine with the hardware repo above unless I need something really new (some versions that's not yet released in the firmware repo as rpms). -- Mikael ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- _ Phil Gardner PGP Key ID 0xFECC890C OTR Fingerprint 6707E9B8 BD6062D3 5010FE8B 36D614E3 D2F80538 [dell-omsa-indep] name=Dell OMSA repository - Hardware independent type=rpm-md mirrorlist=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osname=el$releaseverbasearch=$basearchnative=1dellsysidpluginver=$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 [dell-omsa-specific] name=Dell OMSA repository - Hardware specific type=rpm-md mirrorlist=http://localrepo/repos/dell/hardware/latest/mirrors.cgi?osname=el$releaseverbasearch=$basearchnative=1sys_ven_id=$sys_ven_idsys_dev_id=$sys_dev_iddellsysidpluginver=$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 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
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. inventory_firmware_gui lets you select. I'm not aware of how to achieve this with command line only. As for creating a local mirror, a simple rsync grabs it (I exclude everything I don't need) Yes, I have something pretty similar :) 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. Thanks, I'll compare it with my own to see what's wrong. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dell unofficial community repository - what do you think?
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: 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. inventory_firmware_gui lets you select. I'm not aware of how to achieve this with command line only. update_firmware As for creating a local mirror, a simple rsync grabs it (I exclude everything I don't need) Yes, I have something pretty similar :) I use their repo directly, but I should mirror it now that I have more machines that make use of those packages. It looks like srvadmin-omcommon is broken for one reason or another. [0] [1] [0] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2013-January/047660.html [1] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2013-January/047677.html 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. Thanks, I'll compare it with my own to see what's wrong. The amount of software installed depends on whether one is running the full OpenManage administration interface or not. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 // ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
