[Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

[Basanta Shrestha]

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at 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
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> > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at 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
> >         <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> >         > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson
> >         <pbrobinson at 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
> >
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> > --
> > 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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-- 
Basanta Shrestha
Network Engineer
Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
Cell: +977.9818 605110
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