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authorJason Albert <albertj@us.ibm.com>2015-07-14 13:48:51 -0400
committerJason Albert <albertj@us.ibm.com>2015-07-14 13:48:51 -0400
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Added dependencies section to explicitly call them out
- python 2.7 is required, 2.6 will not work - cmdline xmllint is used, instructions for install given
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@@ -20,9 +20,16 @@ Desc: Takes a binary VPD image and creates template XML files from it
Input: Binary VPD image
Output: Template XML files that can be modified and used to create a new image
+Dependencies
+============
Python 2.7 is required.
NOTE: RHEL6 is python 2.6 and this tool will not run there
+reverseVpd.py requires cmldline xmllint to cleanup the formatting of the output xml
+
+On Ubuntu/Debian: 'apt-get install libxml2-utils'
+On Redhat/Fedora: 'yum install libxml2'
+
Examples
========
The tool comes with a number of example input files
@@ -59,4 +66,4 @@ $ ~/vpdtools/createVpd.py -m ~/vpdtools/examples/sysplanar/sysplanar.tvpd -i ~/v
License
=======
-See LICENSE \ No newline at end of file
+See LICENSE
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