Firmware update -> os-builder

[Daniel Drake]

On 25 November 2010 04:11, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Having os-builder required to have net access in ksmain.50.repos.py is
> less than ideal for remote image creation. Once the cache is downloaded
> could we not just run createrepo on the cache and point os-builder to
> the local url instead of going out to the net all the time? something
> like:
>
> if use_cache:
>            url = "file:///%s/imgcreate/%s" %(ooblib.cachedir, name)
>        else:
>            url = "http://mock.laptop.org/repos/%s" % name
>
> Attached is a rough diff of what I have in mind.

That would be nice (as a configurable option - not the default). Feel
free to develop this further... ;)

> On a side note both 10.1.2 and 10.1.3 share the the same olpc repo via os-builder
> (http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/), that makes it harder to tell the break
> between the two.  Now it's impossible to re-spin os852 without hard-coding the
> rpm versions elsewhere in os-builder. Just a thought.

Look closer.  10.1.2 uses frozen repos instead of the ones on xs-dev.
You can still replicate it exactly.
10.1.3 will also switch to frozen repos soon.

Daniel