<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jerry Vonau <<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>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? > </div>Well I'm surprised that I'm the only one to answer this, I gave the others ample time to respond. </blockquote><div style>yes, looks like no one takes pride on answering simple questions ;)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> > > /root/local/.repo > Where did you download the rpms to? Was it "/root/local/"? Did you run "createrepo /root/local/"? </blockquote><div> </div><div>yes to /root/local/ and I have done createrepo. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> > > ------------------ > [local] > name=firefox-xulrunner local > baseurl=file:///root/local/ > gpgcheck=0 > enabled=1 > ------------------ > </div>I don't understand, what are you doing with the above code? <div> > > olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini > > > > Right below [repos] section > > > ---------------------- > [custom_repo] > local=1,firefox,file:///root/local/ > ---------------------- > </div>No, don't do that, you have to use the OOB method of naming the repos in [repos]. </blockquote><div> </div><div>I was following this documentation <a href="http://cainmanor.com/tech/build-a-custom-repository-for-centos/" target="_blank">http://cainmanor.com/tech/build-a-custom-repository-for-centos/</a> and they had this extra step to create .repo file. so . </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> [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. </blockquote><div> </div><div>The repo seems to be working now it is retrieving packages form local repo. </div><div>Thanks Jerry you have been a great help for me. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> Jerry <div><div> > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jerry Vonau <<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 15:22 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Drake > <<a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org" target="_blank">dsd@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson > <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> 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: > > > > <a href="http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=109570" target="_blank">http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=109570</a> > > > > <a href="http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=116355" target="_blank">http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=116355</a> > > > > It will need newer nss*/nspr builds too. > > > > Peter > > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > > -- > Basanta Shrestha > Network Engineer > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > Tel: <a href="tel:%2B977.1.5544441" value="+97715544441" target="_blank">+977.1.5544441</a>, 5520075 Ext. 303 > Cell: <a href="tel:%2B977.9818%20605110" value="+9779818605110" target="_blank">+977.9818 605110</a> > <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- Basanta Shrestha Network Engineer Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal Tel: <a href="tel:%2B977.1.5544441" value="+97715544441" target="_blank">+977.1.5544441</a>, 5520075 Ext. 303 Cell: <a href="tel:%2B977.9818%20605110" value="+9779818605110" target="_blank">+977.9818 605110</a> <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> </div></div>