Users Guide

Overview

Dell System Update (DSU) is an improved version of Dell OpenManage Linux Repository (DLR) to distribute Dell updates for

Linux systems. The DSU distributes:

• OpenManage Server Administrator

• BIOS and firmware updates for different servers

DSU extensively uses Yum and Zypper.

• Yellowdog Updater, Modified (Yum)

Yum is an open source command line package management utility used for Linux operating systems. Yum primarily helps to

do automatic updates, package and dependency management, mainly for RedHat Package Manager (RPM) based

distributions. Yum has a command line interface and it is implemented in the Python programming language. Yum is mostly

used to update and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Yum has a great informational output and syntax.

• Zypper

Zypper is used for installing, removing, updating, and querying software packages of local and remote networked media. It

has been extensively used for the openSUSE operating systems. It is a package management engine that powers Linux

applications like Yet another Setup Tool (YaST). Zypper can download several update packages, and install them at once.

Zypper is one of the fastest and powerful package manager for the Linux environment.

Topics:

• What is new in this release

• Transitioning from DLR to DSU

What is new in this release

This release of Dell System Update (DSU) supports the following new features:

• New feature options added to configure and display are:

• --input-inventory-file=<FILE>

• --output-inventory-xml=<FILE>

NOTE

: The option dsu --collect-inventory=<FILE> has been replaced with dsu --input-inventory-

file=<FILE> from this release of DSU.

For more information, see Updating the system using DSU

Transitioning from DLR to DSU

Currently, customers can get all the updates for their systems through DLR. However, DSU provides a better customer

experience for getting the latest updates for their systems.

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