Install Firefox
Basanta Shrestha
basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org
Mon Jun 3 04:17:58 EDT 2013
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Basanta Shrestha <
basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 11:14 +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
>> > Adding fedora=fedora_update and rebuilding didn't work.
>> >
>> >
>> > Jerry, As you suggested it installed all the required newer
>> > firefox,xulrunner and nss... packages but the resulting image couldn't
>> > boot the XO. Now I am going for your second suggestion. I have created
>> > a local repo for firefox, xulrunner and other dependencies( 9
>> > altogether) . Could you please check if the entries are right?
>> >
>>
>> Well I'm surprised that I'm the only one to answer this, I gave the
>> others ample time to respond.
>>
>> yes, looks like no one takes pride on answering simple questions ;)
>
>
>> >
>> > /root/local/.repo
>> >
>>
>> Where did you download the rpms to? Was it "/root/local/"?
>> Did you run "createrepo /root/local/"?
>>
>
> yes to /root/local/ and I have done createrepo.
>
>>
>> >
>> > ------------------
>> > [local]
>> > name=firefox-xulrunner local
>> > baseurl=file:///root/local/
>> > gpgcheck=0
>> > enabled=1
>> > ------------------
>> >
>>
>> I don't understand, what are you doing with the above code?
>>
>> >
>> > olpc-os-12.1.0-xo1.75.ini
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Right below [repos] section
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------------
>> > [custom_repo]
>> > local=1,firefox,file:///root/local/
>> > ----------------------
>> >
>>
>> No, don't do that, you have to use the OOB method of naming the repos in
>> [repos].
>>
>
> I was following this documentation
> http://cainmanor.com/tech/build-a-custom-repository-for-centos/ and they
> had this extra step to create .repo file. so .
>
>>
>> [repos]
>> fedora_arch=i386
>> olpc_frozen_1=0,koji.dist-f17-i686
>> olpc_frozen_2=0,koji.dist-f17-i686-updates-12.1.0
>> olpc_frozen_3=1,local.12.1.0
>> olpc_frozen_4=1,local.12.1.0-xo1.5
>> custom_repo_1=0,firefox,file:///root/local/
>> add_excludes_to=koji.dist-f17-i686,koji.dist-f17-i686-updates-12.1.0
>>
>> When you run osbuilder.py, early into the routine you can see the repos
>> being contacted, check to see if your new one is being used or there is
>> an error present.
>>
>
> The repo seems to be working now it is retrieving packages form local
> repo.
> Thanks Jerry you have been a great help for me.
>
Well it was trying to retrieving from file://root/local but it didn't
install any package. Wonder what is wrong.
>
>> Jerry
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>> > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 15:22 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Daniel Drake
>> > <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Peter Robinson
>> > <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >> Firefox and xulrunner 17 are the late known good (and
>> > matching) builds
>> > > >> for Fedora 17, you need the major versions to be matching
>> > (so
>> > > >> 12/13/17) but if you were pulling in all the latest
>> > stable updates
>> > > >> into the build you would have matching ones AFAICT from
>> > koji so
>> > > >> there's some other issue.
>> > > >
>> > > > Ah yes, you are right, the latest available versions on
>> > koji are
>> > > > matching (v17) and built OK. I didn't spot them in the
>> > mass of failed
>> > > > builds. So the Fedora situation is OK.
>> > > >
>> > > >> I'm not sure what the following lines translate to but
>> > you should
>> > > >> never use the koji repositories as repos as they contain
>> > all sorts of
>> > > >> randomly tagged bits that the release repos don't.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> olpc_frozen_1=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl
>> > > >> olpc_frozen_2=0,koji.dist-f17-armv7hl-updates-12.1.0
>> > > >
>> > > > Don't worry, these are not the koji repos you are thinking
>> > of. They
>> > > > are OLPC's frozen versions of fedora repos from the
>> > release's freeze
>> > > > date and are not directly from koji - really we should
>> > change the
>> > > > naming scheme.
>> > > >
>> > > > And this is the cause of the problem - upon release freeze
>> > date, the
>> > > > firefox/xulrunner situation was in inconsistent state;
>> > this problem
>> > > > has been frozen in our repos.
>> > > >
>> > > > Basanta, I would advise against adding the official
>> > fedora-updates
>> > > > repo into your build as has been suggested in this thread
>> > - while this
>> > > > will result in a well matched firefox/xulrunner
>> > combination, it will
>> > > > bring in a lot of untested package updates that were not
>> > part of the
>> > > > release and have probably not been tested on OLPC XO.
>> > > >
>> >
>> >
>> > That is why later in the thread I suggested to download what
>> > yum
>> > installed on the XO, then create and use a custom repo for
>> > OOB.
>> >
>> > > > Instead, create a local repo with these 2 packages and add
>> > it to your
>> > > > build config:
>> > > >
>> > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=109570
>> > > >
>> > http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=116355
>> > >
>> > > It will need newer nss*/nspr builds too.
>> > >
>> > > Peter
>> >
>> >
>> > Jerry
>> >
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Basanta Shrestha
>> > Network Engineer
>> > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
>> > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
>> > Cell: +977.9818 605110
>> > http://www.olenepal.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Basanta Shrestha
> Network Engineer
> Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
> Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
> Cell: +977.9818 605110
> http://www.olenepal.org
>
--
Basanta Shrestha
Network Engineer
Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
Cell: +977.9818 605110
http://www.olenepal.org
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