Vmware ESX 3 patch updates through FTP ...

Hi,

Allthough we only have four ESX-servers for the moment I tried to make a ftp-repository for all ESX-patches. I put the FTP-server on my virtual center server. But it didn't work proporly, I allways got this error :

# esxupdate -r ftp://172.28.247.223/dslib/ESX-1006511 update
INFO: Configuring...
INFO: Preparing to install VMware ESX Server ESX-1006511...
ERROR: Error (1) executing [yum info] retrygrab() failed for: ftp://172.28.247.223/dslib/ESX-1006511/headers/header.info
Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file ftp://172.28.247.223/dslib/ESX-1006511/headers/header.info[Errno 6]
ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server:
Esxupdate-compatible repository for VMware ESX Server ESX-1006511

After some google-ing I found this procedure:

• Login to the service console as root
• Change directory to /usr/share/yum
• Make a backup copy of urlgrabber.py (IMPORTANT) cp urlgrabber.py urlgrabber.py.BAK
• Edit urlgrabber.py and find the following lines:
  
  if have_urllib2 or scheme != 'file':
  # urllib does not provide content-length for local files
  if not hdr is None and not hdr.has_key('Content-Length'):
  raise URLGrabError(6, _('ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong'))
  
• Comment them out (Add a '#' at the beginning of the line):
  
  # if have_urllib2 or scheme != 'file': #
  # urllib does not provide content-length for local files
  # if not hdr is None and not hdr.has_key('Content-Length'):
  # raise URLGrabError(6, _('ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong')) Try the esxupdate command again..
  
  
• Then try the esxupdate again