Does live-cd creator use the repo lines in the kickstart file?

[Bryan Kearney]

I am invoking (on an updated fc8) the following:

livecd-creator -c foo.cfg

foo.cfg contains server repos, and the tool does not seem to run them. 
Even using the provided fc7 kickstarts (livecd-creator -c 
./livecd-fedora-7-desktop.ks) seems to result in the same error:

Error creating Live CD : Failed to find package 'syslinux' : No 
package(s) available to install

Does the tool use the embedded repos?

-- bk

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:02 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>  I am invoking (on an updated fc8) the following:
>  
>  livecd-creator -c foo.cfg
>  
>  foo.cfg contains server repos, and the tool does not seem to run them. 
>  Even using the provided fc7 kickstarts (livecd-creator -c 
>  ./livecd-fedora-7-desktop.ks) seems to result in the same error:
>  
>  Error creating Live CD : Failed to find package 'syslinux' : No 
>  package(s) available to install
>  
>  Does the tool use the embedded repos? 
No, it uses the repo from the config.  But if you have yum-3.2.8-1 (as
opposed to -2), then you're hitting a yum bug.  The fixed yum should
have gotten pushed on Thursday or Friday, though

Jeremy

[Bryan Kearney]

ok.. lemme grab the latest and try again. Where should I have seen this 
error (teach a man to fish question)?

-- bk


Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:02 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> > I am invoking (on an updated fc8) the following:
> >
> > livecd-creator -c foo.cfg
> >
> > foo.cfg contains server repos, and the tool does not seem to run them. 
> > Even using the provided fc7 kickstarts (livecd-creator -c 
> > ./livecd-fedora-7-desktop.ks) seems to result in the same error:
> >
> > Error creating Live CD : Failed to find package 'syslinux' : No 
> > package(s) available to install
> >
> > Does the tool use the embedded repos?
>  
>  No, it uses the repo from the config.  But if you have yum-3.2.8-1 (as
>  opposed to -2), then you're hitting a yum bug.  The fixed yum should
>  have gotten pushed on Thursday or Friday, though
>  
>  Jeremy
>  
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[mdda]

I was stung by this too.

Downgrading to yum-3.2.7-1 enables two things :
1) yum actually finds the packages you ask for
2) for some reason, yum obeys the repo selections in the kickstart file

It was convenient to have yum listen to the kickstart options (rather than
solely its own config), since it allows one to opt for caching of the ISO
creation packages separately from the main system, and also allows for
mirrorlists (which don't seem to be available on the command-line : please
tell me if I'm wrong).

Here's how I downgraded :
# curl -O
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/re...
i386/os/Packages/yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch.rpm 

Martin
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[Bryan Kearney]

I would like to figure out how to cache to speed up re-generations. Have 
you figured out how to do this?

-- bk


mdda wrote:
>  I was stung by this too.
>  
>  Downgrading to yum-3.2.7-1 enables two things :
>  1) yum actually finds the packages you ask for
>  2) for some reason, yum obeys the repo selections in the kickstart file
>  
>  It was convenient to have yum listen to the kickstart options (rather than
>  solely its own config), since it allows one to opt for caching of the ISO
>  creation packages separately from the main system, and also allows for
>  mirrorlists (which don't seem to be available on the command-line : please
>  tell me if I'm wrong).
>  
>  Here's how I downgraded :
>  # curl -O
>
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/re...
>  i386/os/Packages/yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
>  # rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch.rpm 
>  
>  Martin
>  :-)
>