On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:38:24 +0000 (UTC) Cristian Ciupitu <cristian.ciup...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:07 AM, Ranjan Maitra > <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > > > My question is: how does the livecd know to install/use this kernel as > > opposed to the Fedora distribution stock kernel? > > > The latest version is chosen, so your "custom" kernel needs to have a higher > version than the one available in the official Fedora repositories. It can be > either really be newer or if I'm not mistaking have a higher Epoch which is > more important than the version. > > A workaround would be to create your own custom repository with all the > required packages including that kernel, and then using only that repository. > I create it like this from my local cache: > > mkdir -p /tmp/local-repo/packages > ln -s /var/cache/dnf/*/packages/*.rpm /tmp/local-repo/packages/ > createrepo_c -o /tmp/local-repo --skip-stat --changelog-limit 1 \ > --compress-type gz --general-compress-type gz --checksum > md5sum \ > -g > /var/cache/dnf/fedora-d02ca361e1b58501/repodata/gen/groups.xml \ > /tmp/local-repo > > Hope this helps, Thank you very much again! I will see how it works out tomorrow and report back. Best wishes, Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth _______________________________________________ livecd mailing list -- livecd@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to livecd-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
