[Fedora-livecd-list] building fc6 livecds

Fri Mar 23 19:33:09 UTC 2007

Hi,

I try to build a fedora6 livecd on fedora6 with the livecd tool.

So I installed livecd and pykickstart from git/cvs, and I'll give you here a 
brief rundown of the commands I used, so you can see if the cause for the 
error is there:

git-clone git://git.fedoraproject.org/git/hosted/livecd
cd livecd
sudo make install

# install pykickstart with yum, to get the depends...
sudo yum install pykickstart

# livecd-tools need a newer version of pykickstart than fc6 has:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at rhlinux.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS
cvs login
cvs co pykickstart
cd pykickstart
sudo python2.4 setup.py install

Then I modified livecd-fedora-desktop.ks a bit, to use the fc6 repositories 
and too later modify the packages etc. I've attached my 
livecd-fedora-6-desktop.ks to this mail.

Then I ran the following command:

sudo livecd-creator 
 --config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-6-desktop.ks \
 --fslabel=Fedora-6-Test1-LiveCD \
 --repo=c6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os \
 --repo=e6,http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386

Which results in:

[...]
tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Repository core is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository core is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository core-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository core-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository extras is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository extras is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository extras-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository extras-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 867, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 832, in main
    if not target.setup(uncompressed_size, fs_label, base_on):
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 408, in setup
    self.ayum.setup("%s/install_root" %(self.build_dir,))
  File "/usr/bin/livecd-creator", line 179, in setup
    self.doGenericSetup(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 90, in 
doGenericSetup
    self.doRepoSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 299, in 
doRepoSetup
    repo.setup(self.conf.cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 498, in setup
    raise Errors.RepoError, ('Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for 
repository: %s' % self)
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core

I dont think "Repository foo is listed more than once" errors are related, and 
I probably just dont know enough about fedora repositories to figure out the 
cause and the solution for the repomd.xml problem... greping in the livecd 
sources for repomd didnt help :-/ And /var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml exists.

Any help/pointers certainly welcome, if needed I'll happily provide more 
configuration details.

regards,
	Holger
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lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone US/Eastern
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
firewall --disabled
repo --name=c6 --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os
repo --name=e6 --baseurl=http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386 
xconfig --startxonboot
services --enabled=NetworkManager,dhcdbd --disabled=network,sshd

%packages
# basic desktop packages
@graphical-internet
@graphics
@sound-and-video
@gnome-desktop
@base-x
@games
@base
@core
@admin-tools
@dial-up
@hardware-support
@printing
kernel

scim*
-scim-devel
-scim-doc
-scim-qt
# work around yum API bug with specifying wildcards for now 
scim-tables
scim-tables-*
scim-sinhala
scim-libs
scim-bridge
scim-bridge-gtk
scim-anthy
scim-hangul
scim-pinyin
scim-chewing
scim-m17n

m17n-lib
m17n-db
#m17n-db-*

fonts-*
# work around yum API bug with specifying wildcards for now 
fonts-arabic
fonts-bengali
fonts-chinese
fonts-gujarati
fonts-hebrew
fonts-hindi
fonts-japanese
fonts-kannada
fonts-korean
fonts-malayalam
fonts-oriya
fonts-punjabi
fonts-sinhala
fonts-tamil
fonts-telugu

# dictionaries are big
-aspell-*
-m17n-db-*
-man-pages-*
# gimp help is huge
-gimp-help
# lose the compat stuff
-compat*

# space sucks
-festival
-gok
-gnome-speech
-ekiga
-gnome-user-docs
-specspo
-esc
-samba-client
-a2ps
-vino
-redhat-lsb

# smartcards won't really work on the livecd.  and we _need_ space
-coolkey
-ccid

# scanning takes quite a bit of space :/
-xsane
-xsane-gimp

# while hplip requires pyqt, it has to go
-hplip

# added games
#monkey-bubble
#ppracer

# we don't include @office so that we don't get OOo.  but some nice bits
#inkscape
abiword
gnumeric
#planner
evince
gnome-blog

# livecd bits to set up the livecd and be able to install
anaconda

%post
# FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-livecd << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# livecd: Init script for live cd
#
# chkconfig: 345 00 99
# description: Init script for live cd.

. /etc/init.d/functions

if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" livecd || [ "\$1" != "start" ] || [ -e /.livecd-configured ] ; then
    exit 0
fi

exists() {
    which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
    \$*
}

touch /.livecd-configured

# mount livecd
mkdir -p /mnt/livecd
mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/livecd /mnt/livecd

# configure X
exists system-config-display --noui --reconfig --set-depth=24

# unmute sound card
exists alsaunmute 0 2> /dev/null

# add fedora user with no passwd
useradd -c "Fedora live CD" fedora
passwd -d fedora > /dev/null
if [ -e /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png ] ; then
    cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png /home/fedora/.face
    chown fedora:fedora /home/fedora/.face
    # TODO: would be nice to get e-d-s to pick this one up too... but how?
fi

# turn off firstboot for livecd boots
echo "RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO" > /etc/sysconfig/firstboot

# don't start yum-updatesd for livecd boots
chkconfig --levels 345 yum-updatesd off

# Stopgap fix for RH #217966; should be fixed in HAL instead
touch /media/.hal-mtab
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-livecd
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-livecd
/sbin/chkconfig --add fedora-livecd

# big  hack, but how else can we fit?
rm -rf /usr/share/doc/*
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