Install Firefox
Jerry Vonau
jvonau at shaw.ca
Mon Jun 3 10:07:12 EDT 2013
On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 14:29 +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
> It was "reading" repository information from file:///root/local but
> packages were not installed.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Basanta Shrestha
> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
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> 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:
> 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.
Just like you used yum to install firefox in the field, did you ask OOB
to install firefox? In your ini file you need to use:
[custom_packages]
add_packages=firefox
Jerry
>
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> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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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>
> --
> 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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