as an admittedly frustrated followup from yesterday, i am giving up on jigdo and its variations since, quite simply, at the moment, they don't work. and given that the fedora re-spins explicitly state that they are available currently only via jigdo, that makes those re-spins more than a little useless, wouldn't you say?
(i'm going to take someone's advice and try that mock/punji combination and see if that actually functions.) to summarize, trying to build an F10 i386 respin with an original F10 i386 DVD first failed as the corresponding jigdo file had a reference to an out-of-date package (xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse), specifying a version of 12.6.3-1 when most mirrors had already moved on to a newer version of 12.6.3-3, causing jigdo to run through one mirror after another looking for an older version that it was unlikely to find. lesson 1: there's not much value in a jigdo file that's wrong. to correct the above error, it was suggested that i simply edit the jigdo file and fix the problem. possibly, but i don't see why that should be *my* job, and all that's going to do is perhaps get me to the *next* out-of-date reference (whatever that might be). lesson 2: see lesson 1. moving on, even editing the .jigdo file didn't fix the problem because, for some reason, retarting jigdo (and now pointing at the local jigdo file instead of the web URL) still somehow kept looking for the older version of that package. grrrrrrr. time to clear the cache? and if jigdo bails somewhere in the middle, should i expect that i can simply resume it where it left off? trying again this morning with the original jigdo file just to reproduce the problem, the process did in fact (through sheer bad(?) luck) find a mirror with an older version of the aforementioned package so it was successful in downloading it. thusly, if this process terminates, i will eventually have a respin that is officially out of date with respect to at least one package. terrific. and, finally, even though i told "pyjigdo" that, yes, i want it to look under /media where i have the original F10 i386 DVD mounted, it *appears* to be in the process of downloading every one of the required 2303 packages. unlike with jigdo-lite, i didn't see any confirmation after the scan that it found, say, 1505/2303 packages, as i normally get with jigdo-lite. perhaps it did -- i have no way of knowing. in any event, i'm giving this one more try but, at this point, i don't see the value in investing a lot more time in this. it would be nice if the folks at fedoraunity at least *tested* their re-spin process before letting it loose on the public to waste copious amounts of time. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines