Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-tools: cache for yum ? [SUCCESS]
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 00:54:15 -0400,
"Carlos M. Gutierrez" <carlos(a)gutierrez.com> wrote:
>
> This is probably newbie territory, but could you or somebody point me to
> the kickstart documentation that covers the repositories to use and the
> syntax that goes into ks.cfg ...
If you install spin-kickstarts you'll get some samples. fedora-live-base.ks
is one that has repo commands in it you can look at. (Many kickstarts
include others so don't have repo commands in them.)
Thanks Rahul, Bruno, and Jeremy for your help... I finally achieved what I
wanted which was to build a LiveCD ISO file using mostly the packages that
I already had in my "fedora" and "updates" yum caches.
What had me confused for a moment was that I could not find a ks.cfg file
in my system but then I realized that what was meant was my *.ks file for
the LiveCD...
I was already using the spin-kickstarts package in my kickstart file:
%include /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone America/Puerto_Rico
To make the story short, I had to cheat a little to achieve my goal... I
modified /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-base.ks and made the
following change:
repo --name=released ...
to
repo --name=fedora ...
And then everything "just worked"... only a few new packages in
"updates"
were downloaded.
Adding the fedora repo to my own kickstart file didn't work because the
repo command doesn't substitute the repo --name=released line in the base
kickstart file. In other words, you can add repos, not substitute or
remove them. On reading the kickstart docs I note that there is a --cost=
directive that would probably be useful to have more than one repo with
the same packages... and I'll try that as I keep experimenting.
Thanks!
Carlos
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