On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 00:54:15 -0400,
"Carlos M. Gutierrez" <[email protected]> wrote:
This is probably newbie territory, but could you or somebody point me to
the kickstart documentation that covers the repositories to use and the
syntax that goes into ks.cfg ...
If you install spin-kickstarts you'll get some samples. fedora-live-base.ks
is one that has repo commands in it you can look at. (Many kickstarts
include others so don't have repo commands in them.)
Thanks Rahul, Bruno, and Jeremy for your help... I finally achieved what I
wanted which was to build a LiveCD ISO file using mostly the packages that
I already had in my "fedora" and "updates" yum caches.
What had me confused for a moment was that I could not find a ks.cfg file
in my system but then I realized that what was meant was my *.ks file for
the LiveCD...
I was already using the spin-kickstarts package in my kickstart file:
%include /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone America/Puerto_Rico
To make the story short, I had to cheat a little to achieve my goal... I
modified /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-base.ks and made the
following change:
repo --name=released ...
to
repo --name=fedora ...
And then everything "just worked"... only a few new packages in "updates"
were downloaded.
Adding the fedora repo to my own kickstart file didn't work because the
repo command doesn't substitute the repo --name=released line in the base
kickstart file. In other words, you can add repos, not substitute or
remove them. On reading the kickstart docs I note that there is a --cost=
directive that would probably be useful to have more than one repo with
the same packages... and I'll try that as I keep experimenting.
Thanks!
Carlos
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