[Fedora-livecd-list] Cannot create livecd from local repo

Joshua C. joshuacov at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 21 21:30:29 UTC 2009


2009/2/21 Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>:
> 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?




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