supermicro-update-manager-deb

Build scripts to easily create a amd64 .deb package for Supermicro Update Manager. Tested on Devuan ceres but should work on other Debian derivatives, such as Ubuntu, as well.

The scripts are based on https://github.com/procurios/ipmiview-deb which doesn't specify an explicit license.

The created package provides:

• A /usr/sbin/supermicro-update-manager wrapper around the sum binary supplied by the package (which would conflict with /usr/bin/sum from coreutils)
• A man page written by yours truly based on the help output of the sum utility.

Dependencies

You will need the devscripts, libdistro-info-perl and the debhelper packages installed in order to build the supermicro-update-manager .deb file:

apt-get install devscripts debhelper libdistro-info-perl

Building

• Download the .tar.gz file from the Supermicro website and place it in the root directory of this repo.

• Edit debian/control; enter your own name and email address in the Maintainer: field.

• Create a new debian/changelog file using the provided update.sh script:

./update.sh

• Build the package with the following command (it will use fakeroot internally, no need to wrap it):

debuild -us -uc -b

Installing

Install the package with the dpkg command:

dpkg -i supermicro-update-manager...

Alternatively, you can create your own simple repo or more professional one to host your custom deb packages.