creating a fedora spin in F18

Fri May 17 14:36:16 UTC 2013

On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:55:42 -0500 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:36:52 -0500,
>    Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am trying to make a spin (remix). I am also trying to include a few
> >rpms locally (stuff I rolled up for now). How do I include these in the
> >rpm?
> 
> You can use createrepo to make a repository out of your local rpms. Then 
> you need to add this repo using a repo command in your ks file. You can 
> use a file: reference if it's on the same machine.

Thanks very much. I createrepo'd using the following:

createrepo --repo=MyRepos /home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/
Spawning worker 0 with 3 pkgs
Workers Finished
Gathering worker results

Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete

and was rewarded with a repodata directory inside my designated folder. 

I went off to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#repo
and from there, I understood (wrongly) that I needed to add a repo
with the repo command:

repo repo --name=MyRepo
--baseurl=file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/

(Also tried with the above
--baseurl=file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/rpmdata and with repomd.xml
thrown in at the end.)

However, clearly, this does not work and I get a host of errors, as
follows:

sudo livecd-creator --cache=cache --fslabel=Shunya --config=Shunya.ks
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/livecd-creator", line 237, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/bin/livecd-creator", line 218, in main
    creator.install()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line
641, in install ayum.setup(yum_conf, self._instroot)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/yuminst.py", line
104, in setup self.doTsSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 129, in
doTsSetup return self._getTs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 137, in
_getTs if not remove_only and self._tsInfo.pkgSack is None:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line
131, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getPkgSack
(), File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py",
line 128, in _getPkgSack self._pkgSack = self._pkgSackCtor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 76, in
__call__ return self.ayum.pkgSack
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1014,
in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 780, in
_getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 352, in
populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 223, in
populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 313, in
_check_db_version return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1440, in
_check_db_version repoXML = self.repoXML
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1626, in
<lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1622, in
_getRepoXML self._loadRepoXML(text=self.ui_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1613, in
_loadRepoXML return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, self._mdpolicy2mdtypes
()) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1587,
in _groupLoadRepoXML if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1412, in
_commonLoadRepoXML result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1190, in
_getFileRepoXML size=102400) # setting max size as 100K
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1004, in
_getFile raise Errors.NoMoreMirrorsRepoError(errstr, errors)
yum.Errors.NoMoreMirrorsRepoError: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from
MyRepo: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] Could not open/read
file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml/repodata/repomd.xml
maitra at subarnarekha 09:29:25:$ rm -rf *~;sudo livecd-creator
--cache=cache --fslabel=Shunya --config=Shunya.ks Traceback (most
recent call last): File "/bin/livecd-creator", line 237, in <module>
sys.exit(main()) File "/bin/livecd-creator", line 218, in main
creator.install() File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/creator.py", line 641, in
install ayum.setup(yum_conf, self._instroot) File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/imgcreate/yuminst.py", line 104, in
setup self.doTsSetup() File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 129, in
doTsSetup return self._getTs() File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 137, in _getTs
if not remove_only and self._tsInfo.pkgSack is None: File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 131, in
<lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getPkgSack(), File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 128, in
_getPkgSack self._pkgSack = self._pkgSackCtor() File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 76, in
__call__ return self.ayum.pkgSack File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1014, in
<lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 780, in
_getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 352, in
populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 223, in
populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype): File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 313, in
_check_db_version return repo._check_db_version(mdtype) File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1440, in
_check_db_version repoXML = self.repoXML File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1626, in
<lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1622, in
_getRepoXML self._loadRepoXML(text=self.ui_id) File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1613, in
_loadRepoXML return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, self._mdpolicy2mdtypes
()) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1587,
in _groupLoadRepoXML if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text): File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1412, in
_commonLoadRepoXML result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text) File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1190, in
_getFileRepoXML size=102400) # setting max size as 100K File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1004, in
_getFile raise Errors.NoMoreMirrorsRepoError(errstr, errors)
yum.Errors.NoMoreMirrorsRepoError: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from
MyRepo: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could
not open/read file://home/maitra/rpmbuild/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan

____________________________________________________________
FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop!
Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth