[Fedora-livecd-list] Installing a custom rpm on a livecd

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

William Cohen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working on generating a live CD for a systemtap tutorial. The
> current livecd has all that is needed to run systemtap on the livecd. We
> would like to include the systemtap tutorial materials on the CD, e.g.
> examples and the slides. I was thinking of having an rpm and just
> installing that as a part of the %post in kickstart file. Have the
> following line in the %post of the .ks file used by the livecd-creator:
> 
> rpm -i
> http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/stap_tutorial/stap_tutorial-0.5.13-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> 
> I have checked and the rpm is available and I can install it from a
> commandline on other linux machine. Is there a simple way install a
> local RPM onto a liveCD? Or is creating a yum repository the only way to
> do this?
> 

Are you getting errors? Can you ping people.redhat.com from within the
chroot of the livecd? Can you wget the RPM?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip