[Fedora-spins] using livecd-creator

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Oct 12 16:38:26 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:30:13 -0400,
  Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> repo --name=fedora --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> repo --name=updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
 
> Because (as I have observed) it substitutes $basearch with current arch,
> but does not substitute $releasever for anything and therefore that
> URL is inaccessible.

I'll retest this. Which Fedora version are you building on? (It might
be that there is a new feature, but maybe I screwed up testing.)

> I have solved it by creating a custom kickstart file that overrides fedora
> and updates repositories.

That's normal in any case. That's why those settings don't get a lot of
testing. People that regularly make spins will normally have them pointed
to local repos.


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