- Status code: 403 for https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/os_dependent/RHEL8_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 143.166.156.113) Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'omsa': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
I just wanted to add my two cents in, as this is impacting our organization as well. Hoping someone is laying eyes on it, I feel like too often these repos go ignored and stay broken for too long before someone gives them attention.
We ran into the same issue on our side as well. It would really help if Dell provided official notices or status updates when there are outages or maintenance work. It’s a bit frustrating to waste time troubleshooting something that's actually on the server end.
Honestly, Dell really needs to reconsider how they monitor and maintain their Linux repositories. Outages like this aren’t just an inconvenience — they can seriously disrupt system administration workflows. Scheduled update jobs fail, deployment pipelines break, and scripts that rely on repo availability start throwing errors. It's especially frustrating when there's no official communication or status page to refer to. For enterprise environments, this level of unreliability just isn't acceptable.
It's a huge inconvenience and interruption to our workflow when the software repos go offline.
Unfortunately this isn’t the first time it’s happened. It really feels like Dell doesn’t treat their Linux repositories as a critical service, even though for many of us they’re part of day-to-day operations. At this point it’s hard to rely on them without having some kind of fallback in place.
linux.dell.com appears to be down once more. At this point it's hard to see this as an isolated incident. This repository distributes software for Dell's enterprise hardware, yet it seems to disappear every few months.
Maybe it's time to start treating it like a production service instead of an internal lab project.
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Posted March 7th, 2025 11:33
What is actually going on with the Dell software repositories? Yesterday, linux.dell.com was down completely, and now the DNF repos are Forbidden.
A few weeks back it was this: https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/systems-management-general/racadm-missing-from-latest-linux-repo/67530fd3a9a6071a45ae51e6
It's a huge inconvenience and interruption to our workflow when the software repos go offline.