Cannot create livecd from local repo

[Joshua C.]

I cannot create a livecd image from a local repo. I have
livecd-creator and all the ks files. I've downloaded all necessary
files to a local dir (just copied them from previous downloaded cache)
and then run createrepo on it. Then I edited the ks file with "repo
--name=jdfhjdsfh --baseurl=file:///mnt/path to repodata". When
starting livecd-creator it says "retrieving file=///mnt/dsfgsdhfshf
...OK", then it retrieves the repofiles for the other repos and starts
downloading all the files again regardless of the fact that I've
already downloaded them.

How to make livecd-creator see the already downloaded files instead of
downloading them twice?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 17:52:05 -0500,
  "Joshua C."  wrote:
> I cannot create a livecd image from a local repo. I have
> livecd-creator and all the ks files. I've downloaded all necessary
> files to a local dir (just copied them from previous downloaded cache)
> and then run createrepo on it. Then I edited the ks file with "repo
> --name=jdfhjdsfh --baseurl=file:///mnt/path to repodata". When
> starting livecd-creator it says "retrieving file=///mnt/dsfgsdhfshf
> ...OK", then it retrieves the repofiles for the other repos and starts
> downloading all the files again regardless of the fact that I've
> already downloaded them.
>
> How to make livecd-creator see the already downloaded files instead of
> downloading them twice?

The live base ks files also include repository commands. Those need to be
commented out.

[Jerry Vonau]

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:52 -0500, Joshua C. wrote:
> I cannot create a livecd image from a local repo. I have
> livecd-creator and all the ks files. I've downloaded all necessary
> files to a local dir (just copied them from previous downloaded cache)
> and then run createrepo on it. Then I edited the ks file with "repo
> --name=jdfhjdsfh --baseurl=file:///mnt/path to repodata". When
> starting livecd-creator it says "retrieving file=///mnt/dsfgsdhfshf
> ...OK", then it retrieves the repofiles for the other repos and starts
> downloading all the files again regardless of the fact that I've
> already downloaded them.
>
> How to make livecd-creator see the already downloaded files instead of
> downloading them twice?

Repos are assigned a cost of 1000 by default, with repos having a lower
cost being favored over higher cost ones, try appending --cost= to your
local repo string.

ie:

repo --name=jdfhjdsfh --baseurl=file:///mnt/path --cost=500

Jerry

[Joshua C.]

2009/2/21 Jerry Vonau :
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:52 -0500, Joshua C. wrote:
> > I cannot create a livecd image from a local repo. I have
> > livecd-creator and all the ks files. I've downloaded all necessary
> > files to a local dir (just copied them from previous downloaded cache)
> > and then run createrepo on it. Then I edited the ks file with "repo
> > --name=jdfhjdsfh --baseurl=file:///mnt/path to repodata". When
> > starting livecd-creator it says "retrieving file=///mnt/dsfgsdhfshf
> > ...OK", then it retrieves the repofiles for the other repos and starts
> > downloading all the files again regardless of the fact that I've
> > already downloaded them.
> >
> > How to make livecd-creator see the already downloaded files instead of
> > downloading them twice?
>
> Repos are assigned a cost of 1000 by default, with repos having a lower
> cost being favored over higher cost ones, try appending --cost= to your
> local repo string.
>
> ie:
>
> repo --name=jdfhjdsfh --baseurl=file:///mnt/path --cost=500
>
> Jerry
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It didn't work. I set all repos with --cost> 1000 and only
file=///my-local-repo had --cost=250. livecd-creator still prefers to
download the files instead of using the ones, that've already been
downloaded. Any other ideas?

[Marc Herbert]

Joshua C. wrote:
> It didn't work. I set all repos with --cost> 1000 and only
> file=///my-local-repo had --cost=250. livecd-creator still prefers to
> download the files instead of using the ones, that've already been
> downloaded. Any other ideas?

I suspect the problem is that the Fedora-10-comps.xml is required to get 
the package groups (createrepo cannot create this file from thin air).

Once this comps.xml file is found in some repository, livecd creator 
seems to stick to this repository, ignoring the other repositories?

Maybe try to manually drop a copy of the comps.xml file "somewhere" into 
your local repository, while commenting out all the other repositories 
(leaving only yours enabled).

I got tired of this problem and worked around it by just re-using the 
same cache directory over and over.

[Joshua C.]

2009/4/9 Marc Herbert :
> Joshua C. wrote:
> > It didn't work. I set all repos with --cost> 1000 and only
> > file=///my-local-repo had --cost=250. livecd-creator still prefers to
> > download the files instead of using the ones, that've already been
> > downloaded. Any other ideas?
>
> I suspect the problem is that the Fedora-10-comps.xml is required to get the
> package groups (createrepo cannot create this file from thin air).
>
> Once this comps.xml file is found in some repository, livecd creator seems
> to stick to this repository, ignoring the other repositories?
>
> Maybe try to manually drop a copy of the comps.xml file "somewhere" into
> your local repository, while commenting out all the other repositories
> (leaving only yours enabled).

will try
> I got tired of this problem and worked around it by just re-using the same
> cache directory over and over.

this is what I used

maybe --cost  works for repos being adressed with http:// not file://