On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jerry Vonau <
jvonau@shaw.ca> wrote:
Fulko Hew wrote:
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau@shaw.ca> wrote:
Jerry Vonau wrote:
You could also use the --cachedir= setting in livecd-creator to keep the
cache from being deleted in between runs.
Make that --cache=
OK... I tried that, and after a few false attempts I figured out that I had
to pre-create a cache directory specifically named 'yum-cache'
and to pass into the -cache option the name of the directory
that _contained_ 'yum-cache' instead.
I'm using F8 (because KDE in F9 isn't finished/usable yet).
Might be the behavior of what was released with F8, sorry I don't recall.
After running livecd-creator, that cache directory was indeed
populated, so I decided to run the build again to watch it now
take all the rpms from the cache, but it still went out to the net
for everything.
There should be contact with the internet, to gather the repo's metadata to resolve dependences for the rpms. However when it comes time to download the rpms, if the rpm is in the cache the download should be skipped.
I'm not too sure what was happening the first time I tried,
I must have had a 'brain/eyes problem', because it does seem
to be using the cache correctly now. :-(
My next issue... now that I can re-create a spin, is that I've
tried various F8 spins and I can't get them to work 'right',
Ie. none come up with a GUI.
I've tried:
livecd-fedora-8-desktop.ks
livecd-fedora-8-kde.ks
and 'kde' comes up with a text login (that I can't log into.
What username/password?)
and 'desktop' shows me an X config error, but when
viewing the details, I can't scroll to see the whole error log.
So I've moved on to spinning 'livecd-fedora-desktop.ks'.
At least that come up with the GUI, and I can try customizing
it from there. (I need the GUI for the purposes of _my_ spin.)
Unfortunately its Gnome (personally, I'm anti-Gnome) and
F9 and Rawhide, but at least I can move forwards with it.
(Or at least try)