[Sugar-devel] Install Firefox

[Basanta Shrestha]

It was "reading" repository information from file:///root/local but
packages were not installed.


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Basanta Shrestha <
basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:

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> 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
>>> >
>>>
>>> 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
>>> > ------------------
>>> >
>>>
>>> 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].
>>>
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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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
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> 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
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > 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
>>
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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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