Can I generate Installation DVD from Development repository

Hikaru Amano kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 08:17:57 UTC 2007


Thanks for responding Bruno .. however, I got some question about ur
script .. trying to understand how it works

On 3/3/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> I do this by creating a fudged .discinfo file containing the following:
> 1170104239.562016
> Fedora 6.90
> i386
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15
> Fedora/base

what is this line for? I can change this to something else right? if
yes, what are the acceptible values?
> /srv/pungi/20070129.1/6.90/Desktop/i386/os/Fedora

> Fedora/pixmaps
>
> and then run the following to make an install DVD with all of the packages
> currently in core:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> publisher="Bruno Wolff III"
> release="7"
>
> ##############################################################################
>
> export FCBASE=`pwd`
> arch=`uname -i`
> date=`date +%Y%m%d`
>
> mkdir -p $FCBASE/$arch

is $FCBASE/core is the core repo? my mirrored repo is mirrored using
reposync instead of rsync (therefore, I only have the RPMs .. other
stuff in the hierachy are not downloaded) ... do i need to add some
more stuff into FCBASE?
> rsync --archive  $FCBASE/core/ $FCBASE/$arch


> repomanage --old i386/Fedora/RPMS | xargs rm -f
> cp $FCBASE/.discinfo $FCBASE/$arch
>
> find $arch -name "TRANS.TBL" -exec rm -f {} \;
> mkisofs -q -r -R -J -T -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
>   -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -boot-info-table \
>   -V "FC $release update$date $arch DVD" \
>   -A "Fedora Core $release update$date $arch DVD" \
>   -publisher "$publisher" -p "$publisher" -x lost+found \
>   -o FC-$release-update$date-$arch-DVD.iso $arch
>
> You might also be able to just use the boot.iso and custom repositories,
> but I don't know how to do that.
>


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