[Fedora-spins] Help creating a spin

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>>> 1) I need livna to begin with (haven't converted files to theora/ogg
>>> yet). When I specify livna in the ks using the mirrorlist from my
>>> livna.repo file, it hangs.
>>>
>> Hmm, what does the kickstart section with regards to the repository 
>> configuration look like?
> 
> # Add the repos you wish to use to compose here.  At least one of them
> needs gr$
> repo --name=fedora
> --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?rep$
> repo --name=fedora-source
> --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorl$
> repo --name=fedora-updates
> --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirror$
> repo --name=fedora-updates-source
> --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org$
> repo --name=livna --baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9/i386/
> 

This should *just work* but maybe needs a repo for livna-source ?

>>> 2) copy_dir goes in the revisor.conf file right?
>>>
>> Yes, in the model configuration, e.g.:
>>
>> [f9-i386-foo]
>> description=(...)
>> (...)
>> copy_dir=/tmp (which btw in general is a bad location to choose for 
>> copy_dir because of all the other bits that are in there, but OK)
> 
> Ah, this bit suddenly made sense to me. So if it's copied to root, I
> need to put the files I want in say:
> 
> /tmp/home/fedora/
> 
> which will be copied over to /home/fedora/
> 

Yes, that's the idea.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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