[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Cannot create livecd from local repo

[Joshua C.]

2009/4/9 Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert at gmail.com>:
> Joshua C. wrote:
>
>> It didn't work. I set all repos with --cost> 1000 and only
>> file=///my-local-repo had --cost=250. livecd-creator still prefers to
>> download the files instead of using the ones, that've already been
>> downloaded. Any other ideas?
>
> I suspect the problem is that the Fedora-10-comps.xml is required to get the
> package groups (createrepo cannot create this file from thin air).
>
> Once this comps.xml file is found in some repository, livecd creator seems
> to stick to this repository, ignoring the other repositories?
>
> Maybe try to manually drop a copy of the comps.xml file "somewhere" into
> your local repository, while commenting out all the other repositories
> (leaving only yours enabled).

will try


>
> I got tired of this problem and worked around it by just re-using the same
> cache directory over and over.

this is what I used

maybe --cost  works for repos being adressed with http:// not file://