livecd-tools: cache for yum ?

[Vnpenguin]

Hi,
Does livecd-tools uses a cache for yum ? I can't found command line
option for the cache yet ?
I have no local repo and I don't want download all packages for each build.

Thanks,
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[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Vnpenguin wrote:
>  Hi,
>  Does livecd-tools uses a cache for yum ? I can't found command line
>  option for the cache yet ?
>  I have no local repo and I don't want download all packages for each build.
>   
I think the option is "--cache /path/to/directory"

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[Vnpenguin]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip(a)kanarip.com&gt; wrote:
>  Vnpenguin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > Does livecd-tools uses a cache for yum ? I can't found command line
> > option for the cache yet ?
> > I have no local repo and I don't want download all packages for each
> > build.
> >
>
>  I think the option is "--cache /path/to/directory"
>  
Oh, my bad !!! Yes, I found it too,

Thank you,

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[Carlos M. Gutierrez]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

>  Vnpenguin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Does livecd-tools uses a cache for yum ? I can't found command line
> > option for the cache yet ?
> > I have no local repo and I don't want download all packages for each build.
> > 
>
>  I think the option is "--cache /path/to/directory" 
In my Fedora 10 system I already have the usual yum caches at:

/var/cache/yum/fedora/
/var/cache/yum/updates/

Is there a command-line switch to specify to livecd-creator to use those 
caches? If possible, it could save quite some bandwidth...

I rsync'd the packages in /var/cache/yum/fedora/packages/ to a temporary 
directory in /var/tmp/livecd and then ran livecd-creator with 
--cache=/var/tmp/livecd but it proceeded to download all the packages 
needed for the CD anyway.

Ideally, livecd-creator would be able to use those packages that I already 
have in the system... have I missed something obvious?

Thanks... :-)

Carlos M. Gutierrez
carlos(a)gutierrez.com


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[Jeremy Katz]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Carlos M. Gutierrez wrote:
>  In my Fedora 10 system I already have the usual yum caches at:
[snip]
>  Is there a command-line switch to specify to livecd-creator to use  
>  those caches? If possible, it could save quite some bandwidth... 
If you use --cache /var/cache/yum, it'll use them.  But note that the  
"name" associated with repo lines in your ks.cfg will need to match  
the name of the repo for the regular system (ie, "fedora" and  
"updates" respectively)

Jeremy

[Carlos M. Gutierrez]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Jeremy Katz wrote:

>  If you use --cache /var/cache/yum, it'll use them.  But note that
> the "name" 
>  associated with repo lines in your ks.cfg will need to match the name of the 
>  repo for the regular system (ie, "fedora" and "updates" respectively)
I have no ks.cfg file in my system(s) which is not surprising since I 
have never used kickstart before... the closest I have is anaconda-ks.cfg 
in the /root directory and I do note that there is a Gnome applet to edit 
a kickstart file, but that one doesn't seem to have anywhere to specify 
repositories and their names.

man kickstart didn't return anything.

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 ...

I did try running livecd-creator with --cache /var/yum/cache but the huge 
download started anyway... after some checking, it seems the new rpm's 
went into /var/cache/yum/released ... the "fedora" repository appears to 
be renamed somewhere to "released".

Thanks...

Carlos

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[Rahul Sundaram]

Carlos M. Gutierrez 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 ...
>  
>  I did try running livecd-creator with --cache /var/yum/cache but the 
>  huge download started anyway... after some checking, it seems the new 
>  rpm's went into /var/cache/yum/released ... the "fedora" repository 
>  appears to be renamed somewhere to "released". 
# yum install spin-kickstarts for getting a bunch of official kickstart 
files.

Also refer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart

The directory names in the cache folder are based on the repository id 
and they are not being renamed.

Rahul

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 00:54:15 -0400,
  "Carlos M. Gutierrez" <carlos(a)gutierrez.com&gt; 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.)

livecd-tools: cache for yum ? [SUCCESS]

[Carlos M. Gutierrez]

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&gt; 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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Ooh I know this you need create repo and rsync that way you can rsync from
the internet (I have the whole of Fedora10 for x86 & 64) and createrepo on
the directory google createrepo fedora and there is a tutorial on
howtoforge i think it's for fedora8 but still works and works for other
distro's

First contrib lol


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>  Does livecd-tools uses a cache for yum ? I can't found command line
>  option for the cache yet ?
>  I have no local repo and I don't want download all packages for each
>  build.
>
>  Thanks,
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