osabmcutil is an rpm package from Dell, it contains utils for managing the BMC on Dell servers via IPMI. AFAIK most can be done with ipmitool, but it also contains the 'solproxy' tool which is needed to use the Serial-over-LAN feature of IPMI v1.5 boards on Dell servers (and possibly on other IPMIv1.5 systems?). AFAIK it's only available in RPM i386 form (http://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/osabmcutil-1.0.1_A00.i386.rpm). Binaries are statically linked and works without problems on x86_64 systems too. An ebuild init script should be added to start solproxy. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to find the tools needed to use Serial-over-LAN for an IPMIv1.5 board 2. ipmitool can configure SOL on the board, but doesn't provide support for actually connecting to it Actual Results: solproxy is needed Expected Results: install osabmcutil from portage, start solproxy service, use it I've never wrote a new ebuild. Will try if/when I'll have time and eventually attach results here. If someone more skilled than me wants to help it would be really appreciated.
This package does not meet the current criteria needed to be a viable candidate for the Portage tree due to it's license file. This criteria is currently listed at the following URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers/Maintainer_Wanted Metric: Suitability: License; "Package license must be a good fit for Gentoo" An additional concern is that upstream provides no source, only a pre-compiled binary. As stated below IPMItools potentially offers much of the same functionality. Tom D
