[Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

[Basanta Shrestha]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Basanta Shrestha <
basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> 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 ;)
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>> > /root/local/.repo
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>> Where did you download the rpms to?  Was it "/root/local/"?
>> Did you run "createrepo /root/local/"?
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> yes to /root/local/ and I have done createrepo.
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>> >
>> > ------------------
>> > [local]
>> > name=firefox-xulrunner local
>> > baseurl=file:///root/local/
>> > gpgcheck=0
>> > enabled=1
>> > ------------------
>> >
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>> I don't understand, what are you doing with the above code?
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>> >
>> >  olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini
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>> > Right below [repos] section
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------------
>> > [custom_repo]
>> > local=1,firefox,file:///root/local/
>> > ----------------------
>> >
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>> No, don't do that, you have to use the OOB method of naming the repos in
>> [repos].
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> 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 .
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>> [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
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>> 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.
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> The repo seems to be working now it is retrieving packages form local
> repo.
> Thanks Jerry you have been a great help for me.
>

Well it was trying to retrieving from file://root/local but it didn't
install any package. Wonder what is wrong.


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>> 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
> 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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