firmware-tools GUI now available

    I am pleased to announce that firmware-tools now has a
GUI tool for
doing system inventory and firmware updates.

    The executable is called 'inventory_firmware_gui' and is
available
in firmware-tools version 1.5.1 and higher.

    The GUI has been developed using Glade and pyglade. It
is developed
on my Fedora 7 system, but should run on RHEL4/5. I have not
yet tested
on SLES, but it should run there as well. The entire GUI
weighs in at
less than 1000 lines of code, which 

    I intend to send a note to linux-poweredge for this
later this week.
Please bang on it and let me know if you see any issues.

Known bugs:
    -- the "About" dialog box crashes on RHEL4
    -- if you click the 'close' decoration before the window
has fully
initialized, it crashes.

Future enhancements:
    -- add status icons to the update firmware status page
    -- add a spinner to the update status page so you can
watch progress
    -- add more colors to the main inventory page so you can
see which
devices are out of date.
    -- others as requested/suggested.

--
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:24:19PM +0200, Johannes Engel
wrote:
> Michael E Brown schrieb:
> >     I am pleased to announce that firmware-tools
now has a GUI tool for
> > doing system inventory and firmware updates.
> >
> Thanks a lot for your announcement, Michael. But where
can I find the
> suitable download? The respective folders upto 1.5.3
seem to be empty...

Gak. Thanks for pointing this out. I do all my releases to
the Dell yum
repositories and test from there, so I completely didnt
notice that my
release scripts had broken. :(

I'll get tarballs posted shortly, but until then, you can
download from
the repository:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/fc7/x86_64/fir
mware-tools/

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Michael E Brown schrieb:
>     I am pleased to announce that firmware-tools now
has a GUI tool for
> doing system inventory and firmware updates.
>
>     The executable is called 'inventory_firmware_gui'
and is available
> in firmware-tools version 1.5.1 and higher.
>
>     The GUI has been developed using Glade and pyglade.
It is developed
> on my Fedora 7 system, but should run on RHEL4/5. I
have not yet tested
> on SLES, but it should run there as well. The entire
GUI weighs in at
> less than 1000 lines of code, which 
>
>     I intend to send a note to linux-poweredge for this
later this week.
> Please bang on it and let me know if you see any
issues.
>
> Known bugs:
>     -- the "About" dialog box crashes on
RHEL4
>     -- if you click the 'close' decoration before the
window has fully
> initialized, it crashes.
>
> Future enhancements:
>     -- add status icons to the update firmware status
page
>     -- add a spinner to the update status page so you
can watch progress
>     -- add more colors to the main inventory page so
you can see which
> devices are out of date.
>     -- others as requested/suggested.
>
> --
> Michael Brown
Thanks a lot for your announcement, Michael. But where can I
find the
suitable download? The respective folders upto 1.5.3 seem to
be empty...

Greetings, Johannes
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