On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 11:14 +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > > Adding fedora=fedora_update and rebuilding didn't work. > > > > > > Jerry, As you suggested it installed all the required newer > > firefox,xulrunner and nss... packages but the resulting image couldn't > > boot the XO. Now I am going for your second suggestion. I have created > > a local repo for firefox, xulrunner and other dependencies( 9 > > altogether) . Could you please check if the entries are right? > > > > Well I'm surprised that I'm the only one to answer this, I gave the > others ample time to respond. > > yes, looks like no one takes pride on answering simple questions ;)
> > > > /root/local/.repo > > > > Where did you download the rpms to? Was it "/root/local/"? > Did you run "createrepo /root/local/"? > yes to /root/local/ and I have done createrepo. > > > > > ------------------ > > [local] > > name=firefox-xulrunner local > > baseurl=file:///root/local/ > > gpgcheck=0 > > enabled=1 > > ------------------ > > > > I don't understand, what are you doing with the above code? > > > > > olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini > > > > > > > > Right below [repos] section > > > > > > ---------------------- > > [custom_repo] > > local=1,firefox,file:///root/local/ > > ---------------------- > > > > No, don't do that, you have to use the OOB method of naming the repos in > [repos]. > I was following this documentation http://cainmanor.com/tech/build-a-custom-repository-for-centos/ and they had this extra step to create .repo file. so . > > [repos] > fedora_arch=i386 > olpc_frozen_1=0,koji.dist-f17-i686 > olpc_frozen_2=0,koji.dist-f17-i686-updates-12.1.0 > olpc_frozen_3=1,local.12.1.0 > olpc_frozen_4=1,local.12.1.0-xo1.5 > custom_repo_1=0,firefox,file:///root/local/ > add_excludes_to=koji.dist-f17-i686,koji.dist-f17-i686-updates-12.1.0 > > When you run osbuilder.py, early into the routine you can see the repos > being contacted, check to see if your new one is being used or there is > an error present. > The repo seems to be working now it is retrieving packages form local repo. Thanks Jerry you have been a great help for me. > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 15:22 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Drake > > <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson > > <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and > > matching) builds > > > >> for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching > > (so > > > >> 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest > > stable updates > > > >> into the build you would have matching ones AFAICT from > > koji so > > > >> there's some other issue. > > > > > > > > Ah yes, you are right, the latest available versions on > > koji are > > > > matching (v17) and built OK. I didn't spot them in the > > mass of failed > > > > builds. So the Fedora situation is OK. > > > > > > > >> I'm not sure what the following lines translate to but > > you should > > > >> never use the koji repositories as repos as they contain > > all sorts of > > > >> randomly tagged bits that the release repos don't. > > > >> > > > >> olpc_frozen_1=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl > > > >> olpc_frozen_2=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl-updates-12.1.0 > > > > > > > > Don't worry, these are not the koji repos you are thinking > > of. They > > > > are OLPC's frozen versions of fedora repos from the > > release's freeze > > > > date and are not directly from koji - really we should > > change the > > > > naming scheme. > > > > > > > > And this is the cause of the problem - upon release freeze > > date, the > > > > firefox/xulrunner situation was in inconsistent state; > > this problem > > > > has been frozen in our repos. > > > > > > > > Basanta, I would advise against adding the official > > fedora-updates > > > > repo into your build as has been suggested in this thread > > - while this > > > > will result in a well matched firefox/xulrunner > > combination, it will > > > > bring in a lot of untested package updates that were not > > part of the > > > > release and have probably not been tested on OLPC XO. > > > > > > > > > > That is why later in the thread I suggested to download what > > yum > > installed on the XO, then create and use a custom repo for > > OOB. > > > > > > Instead, create a local repo with these 2 packages and add > > it to your > > > > build config: > > > > > > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=109570 > > > > > > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=116355 > > > > > > It will need newer nss*/nspr builds too. > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Basanta Shrestha > > Network Engineer > > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303 > > Cell: +977.9818 605110 > > http://www.olenepal.org > > > -- Basanta Shrestha Network Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303 Cell: +977.9818 605110 http://www.olenepal.org
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