<div dir="ltr">Hi Jerry this is just for the record on the list. <div style>It worked. Thank you very much. I now have firefox working. Now I need to make adobe_flash to work with it. </div><div style>-basanta</div><div style> </div><div style> </div><div style> </div><div style> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Jerry Vonau <<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 14:29 +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > 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 > <<a href="mailto:basanta.shrestha@olenepal.org">basanta.shrestha@olenepal.org</a>> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Basanta Shrestha > <<a href="mailto:basanta.shrestha@olenepal.org">basanta.shrestha@olenepal.org</a>> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jerry Vonau > <<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>> 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 <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 . > > [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. > > > Well it was trying to retrieving from file://root/local but it > didn't install any package. Wonder what is wrong. </div></div>Just like you used yum to install firefox in the field, did you ask OOB to install firefox? In your ini file you need to use: [custom_packages] add_packages=firefox Jerry <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jerry Vonau > <<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca">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">dsd@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 > PM, Peter Robinson > > <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">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">+977.1.5544441</a>, 5520075 Ext. 303 > > Cell: <a href="tel:%2B977.9818%20605110" value="+9779818605110">+977.9818 605110</a> > > <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> > > > > > > > > -- > Basanta Shrestha > Network Engineer > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > Tel: <a href="tel:%2B977.1.5544441" value="+97715544441">+977.1.5544441</a>, 5520075 Ext. 303 > Cell: <a href="tel:%2B977.9818%20605110" value="+9779818605110">+977.9818 605110</a> > <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> > > > > > -- > Basanta Shrestha > Network Engineer > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > Tel: <a href="tel:%2B977.1.5544441" value="+97715544441">+977.1.5544441</a>, 5520075 Ext. 303 > Cell: <a href="tel:%2B977.9818%20605110" value="+9779818605110">+977.9818 605110</a> > <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> > > > > > -- > Basanta Shrestha > Network Engineer > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > Tel: <a href="tel:%2B977.1.5544441" value="+97715544441">+977.1.5544441</a>, 5520075 Ext. 303 > Cell: <a href="tel:%2B977.9818%20605110" value="+9779818605110">+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: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303 Cell: +977.9818 605110 <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a> </div>