[Fedora-livecd-list] Building LiveCDs for Fedora from CentOS

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

harry.devine at faa.gov wrote:
> 
> We have our development servers here where I work that are running 
> CentOS 5.2 64-bit on them.  One of our projects has a LiveCD that we 
> build and provide.  It is currently built on a Fedora 8 PC that I have 
> but we'd like to move to Fedora 11 or 12.
> 
> What I'd like to do is put the Fedora 11 RPMs on our server, run 
> createrepo to create a repository, and use livecd-creator on that server 
> to build the Fedora 11 LiveCD.  Is this approach possible?  Are there 
> any "gotchas" I need to be aware of if it is possible?  The LiveCD is a 
> 32-bit implementation BTW.
> 

You will run into a SquashFS major version bump incompatible between 
Fedora on the live media and CentOS on the server. You should use a 
Fedora release greater then or equal to Fedora 11 on the build host, 
even though you can still host the repositories used on the EL-5 server.

-- Jeroen