Re: Automatic Updates Broken With Repo Change

I have been using this script to speed things up in the meantime.


sed -i "s#enabled=1#enabled=0#" 
/etc/yum.repos.d/dell-omsa-repository.repo && yum -y install 
dell-system-update && yum -y remove dell_ie_rac python-smbios && yum -y 
upgrade && srvadmin-services.sh restart



On 05/03/2016 06:37 AM, Ben wrote:
> I strongly support this request.
>
> We're getting the same issue over many servers.  We haven't moved most of
> our servers from the old Dell repo to DSU.  I'm now loathe to do any updates
> to OMSA until I can be sure each server won't take an inordinate amount of
> time to unfunge.
>
> Ben
>
>
> On Sun, 1 May 2016, Ed Velez wrote:
>
>> The recent repo change has broken automatic updates on dell servers w/ the
>> dell repo enabled and omsa 8.1 installed. With omsa 8.1 (and possibly
>> other older versions) - the following packages would have been installed
>> on a server:
>>
>> python-smbios
>> smbios-utils-python
>> yum-dellsysid
>>
>> As a result of the repo change - servers with omsa 8.1 are now being
>> pushed to 8.3. Unfortunately it does not appear that you have tested this
>> case as a server does not cleanly upgrade to 8.3 under these conditions.
>> You will get dependency errors when libsmbios tries to get upgraded. There
>> is a recent thread with the applicable rpm dependency output. While we can
>> remove these packages since they no longer seem to be needed - your repo
>> change has now broken automatic OS updates on RHEL 6 servers where the
>> dell repos may have previously been configured.
>>
>> I would highly ask that you consider creating a solution to address this
>> via an update to the rpm packages - so as to prevent a scenario where
>> manual remediation is going to be required - and not indirectly
>> perpetuating a security risk.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> ed
>
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