[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator, revisor fail to build a CD

[Phil Meyer]

Clint Savage wrote:
> I feel very dense here, and I must be missing something.  When I 
> attempt to simply build a minimal live CD with either livecd-creator 
> or revisor it fails.  revisor seems to hang, and gives me very little 
> in the way of error messages.  Because of this, I resorted to using 
> livecd-creator to build the live CD.
>
> When I run the following, I get an error I've search high and low for, 
> but its not very helpful:
>
> # livecd-creator 
> --config=/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks 
> --fslabel=Fedora-7-LiveCD-minimal
>
> The error I receive is found at the end of this output:
>
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> Filesystem label=Fedora-7-LiveCD-
> OS type: Linux
>
> ..snip..
>
> tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> Setting maximal mount count to -1
> Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
> No Repositories Available to Set Up
>
> What does "No Repositories Available to Set Up" mean? I am following 
> the tutorial here: [1]  I looked in the livecd-fedora-minimal.ks for a 
> repository and I find this one:

Doing packet sniffing on this part of the procedure showed that when the 
yum routines are called from within revisor the $releasever variable was 
not being expanded.

To fix this before the next release, you have to substitute 7 for the 
variable manually in the revisor yum config files.

Good Luck!