KDE-Live-CD: basic cd layout and localizations

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 18 22:14:55 UTC 2007


Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've created a new basic layout for the cd:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraKDE/KDELiveCD
> The size on todays rawhide is about 667 MB.
> Please tell me which package should be added or removed.
> 
> 
> On todays KDE-SIG-Meeting Rex Dieter and Kevin Kofler suggested to give
> the local communities the ability to create their own localized cds
> easily. To do this there should be an extra configuration file for each
> language which adds the needed packages and do some configurations. And
> also the additional language must fit on one cd.
> A second option for localized versions could (or should?) be a
> live-dvd with all available language packages. livecd-creator in git
> seems to be able to do this (but I haven't checked this yet). [1]
> 
> I've created a first draft for an configuration for the german language.
> This adds kde-i18n-de and koffice-langpack-de to the cd. Also the
> standard keyboard layout, the local timezone and the locale is changed.
> To change the keyboard layout inside kde I've used an ugly
> workaround.[2] 
> If anybody knows a better way, please tell me. :)
> Compared to the version above this one needs ~675 MB.
> 
> 
> To create the configuration files for different languages I need some
> informations from one person that uses the language:
> 1. /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> 2. /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
> 3. /etc/sysconfig/clock
> 4. keybordtype from "system-config-keyboard --help"
> 5. needed additional packages (eg. scim-* or fonts-*)
> 
> 
> And of course all are invited to discuss this. :)
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/livecd
> [2]
> http://www.deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/source/50-fedora-livecd-kde-german.conf
> 
> #########
> 
> How to create the live cd:
> 
> Install livecd-tools:
> 
> wget
> "http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/live/f7test2/livecd-tools-001-3.fc7.i386.rpm"
> rpm -ivh livecd-tools-001-3.fc7.i386.rpm
> 
> Create the spin:
> 
> livecd-creator \
> --repo=c7,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
> \
> --repo=e7,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/
> \ 
> --repo=lcd7,http://www.deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/i386/ \
> --package=fedora-livecd-kde \ 
> --fslabel=Fedora-7-Test2-KDE

This results in the error:

Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repositry:lcdr_c7
Error installing packages
Error during installation

Rahul




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