Firmware update -> os-builder

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 08:17 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 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... ;)
> 
Gee how did I know that was going to be the answer... ;) Don't think it
could be a default, you'd have to create the cache first.

> > 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.

Yup your right, sorry my mistake.   

> 10.1.3 will also switch to frozen repos soon.
> 

Any chance of syncing koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.2 or maybe
koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.3 to the final updates from Fedora?

Jerry