+1 for Onno comment on adding dependencies and not /dev/null'ing errors. This has been on my investigation list as why updates are not being applied. Now I know. Thank you Onno!
At the VERY least update the DSU page ( http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/ ) to indicate need to manually install Thanks PJ On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:56 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:44:05 +0200 > From: Onno Zweers <[email protected]> > Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] dsu failing to install iDRAC Service Module > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear people, > > In the archive I've found a discussion about dsu stumbling over iDRAC > Service Module: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/ > 2017-August/051254.html <http://lists.us.dell.com/ > pipermail/linux-poweredge/2017-August/051254.html> > > I had a similar problem and documented some troubleshooting steps: > https://onnonymous.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/dell-dsu-fails- > to-update-idrac-service-module/ <https://onnonymous.wordpress. > com/2017/10/09/dell-dsu-fails-to-update-idrac-service-module/> > > I hope it may be useful to others. > > To the Dell package maintainers I have these questions/remarks (based on > Centos 7): > > - You've put an RPM inside a self extracting BIN inside an RPM. Why so > complicated? Why don't you just put the dcism RPM in the repo? > - If you can't do that, please modify the Systems-Management_Application_* > packages to depend on usbutils and compat-libstdc++-33.i686 and possibly > OpenIPMI. > - Please don't redirect errors to /dev/null (with strace I noticed this > many times) but write them to the log or to stderr. > > Kind regards, > Onno > ... >
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