Re: DSU triggering yum update

Tim Mooney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In regard to: [Linux-PowerEdge] DSU triggering yum update, Soorej_Ponnandi@...:

> Dell - Internal Use - Confidential Try disabling ('enabled=0') the repos
> configured in /etc/yum.repos.d/ except the one for dsu (usually
> dell-system-update.repo  or dsu_repository.repo) while updating OMSA.

That's a workaround for now, but I would hope that the plan is to fix
the existing Dell procedure so that it handles updating *just* itself
correctly.

In other words, *it* should be doing something like

 	yum --disablerepo=all --enable-repo=dell-system-update update

instead of

 	yum update

Tim

> From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Pablo Ilarragorri
> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 6:22 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] DSU triggering yum update
>
> Hi ,
>
> I'm currently testing DSU on RHEL 6.7 over a Poweredge R730  and found out that when I choose to update OMSA DSU tries to run a full yum update command, not only updating the OMSA software but also tiggering a full OS update. Is this an intended behaviour?
> On the other hand , I didn't see an easy way to make this scriptable since the non-interactive option automatically installs all the updates (including the OMSA one which triggers the yum update)
>
> Regards!
>
>
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