[Fedora-livecd-list] Does live-cd creator use the repo lines in the kickstart file?

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Wed Dec 12 22:09:10 UTC 2007


I would like to figure out how to cache to speed up re-generations. Have 
you figured out how to do this?

-- bk


mdda wrote:
> I was stung by this too.
> 
> Downgrading to yum-3.2.7-1 enables two things :
> 1) yum actually finds the packages you ask for
> 2) for some reason, yum obeys the repo selections in the kickstart file
> 
> It was convenient to have yum listen to the kickstart options (rather than
> solely its own config), since it allows one to opt for caching of the ISO
> creation packages separately from the main system, and also allows for
> mirrorlists (which don't seem to be available on the command-line : please
> tell me if I'm wrong).
> 
> Here's how I downgraded :
> # curl -O
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/
> i386/os/Packages/yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
> # rpm -Uvh --oldpackage yum-3.2.7-1.fc8.noarch.rpm 
> 
> Martin
> :-)
> 




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