New ipmitool available in Dell yum repositories

re: New ipmitool available in Dell yum repositories

David Sparks — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:46:49 GMT

Have these changes been submitted upstream yet?

re: New ipmitool available in Dell yum repositories

Matt_Domsch_blog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:49:13 GMT

The Ubuntu freeze dates are coming up pretty quickly, but if the patches get reviewed and incorporated into ipmitool mainline before the freeze, we can try to get a new ipmitool built in Ubuntu Universe that includes them. This would be best for everyone all around - available by default to Ubuntu users, and reduced long term maintenance for us for having a "special build".

re: New ipmitool available in Dell yum repositories

DELL-Michael B — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:09:26 GMT

Dell actually has a couple of community-supported resources for Ubuntu folks. First of all, we have a PPA at http://ppa.launchpad.net/dell-team/ubuntu containing a few packages. We have hired noted Ubuntu contributor Mario Limonciello and are working on getting our firmware packages into an apt repo.

Next, if you look through the mailing list archives for linux-poweredge@dell.com (http://lists.us.dell.com), you can find information about the SARA ports of OMSA to debian, plus user-contributed debian packages for other Dell things (OMSA livecd, and other things).

Aside from the user-contributed stuff, though, we are not currently planning any official release of OMSA or any of the other Dell tools for debian/ubuntu at this time.

re: New ipmitool available in Dell yum repositories

Chris Adams — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:28:00 GMT

With your increased Ubuntu support is there any chance of adding an APT repository for the Debian-side of the world? We abandoned Red Hat when they stranded ES/EW customers without an upgrade path and aren't thinking about going back. We've used alien with local modifications but it'd be really nice to have a current, official repository.