dellsysidplugin2??

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:14:21 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:

>> It's a plugin to identify a Dell system's firmware ID.  It's referred
>> to in the dell-firmware-repository.repo file.  I suppose it's Dell's
>> way of limiting your view of available firmware upgrades available to
>> you based on the hardware that is running the yum command.  I know I
>> got this repository installed because I explicitly asked for it. Don't
>> know how you may have come across it.
>>
> I'm not the OP, but I was wondering what that is myself. I don't recall
> asking for this repo and I do NOT have a Dell PC. :-) After checking
> /etc/yum.repos.d, I see that I do not have this repo installed as best I
> can tell.
> 
> Any more ideas?

	Well, as the OP, I have something like half an idea. One (only 
one) of the four F11 PCs at my desk, a hand-me-down, was a Dell server 
before I got it. 

	It makes some sort of sense that that machine should have such a 
plugin; but is there any way it could have contaminated any others??

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