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Creating a Test Day Live Image
The following steps outline how to create a Fedora live image based on current Rawhide packages for use during Test Days.
This guide is intended mainly for Fedora QA team
Ordinary users who want to participate on a test day doesn't have to follow this guide, the pre-built images will be published and available for them to download on a Test Day pages.
Ordinary users who want to participate on a test day doesn't have to follow this guide, the pre-built images will be published and available for them to download on a Test Day pages.
1. Install required packages:
yum install spin-kickstarts livecd-tools
2. Save most recent fedora-live-base.ks and fedora-livecd-desktop.ks kickstart templates to a custom directory:
wget 'http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-live-base.ks;hb=HEAD' -O fedora-live-base.ks wget 'http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-livecd-desktop.ks;hb=HEAD' -O fedora-livecd-desktop.ks
3. Create a new testday kickstart template fedora-livecd-testday.ks in the same directory, with this content:
%include fedora-livecd-desktop.ks repo --name jlaska --baseurl http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/repos/testday repo --name awilliam --baseurl http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/nouveau %packages gdb strace ltrace rendercheck libdrm -olpc-logos # rebrand test spins fedora-logos -generic-logos %end %post # Set Test_Day:Current as default browser homepage cat << EOF > /usr/lib*/firefox*/browserconfig.properties browser.startup.homepage=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Current EOF # Create a .desktop link for Test Day mkdir -p /etc/skel/Desktop cat << EOF > /etc/skel/Desktop/testday.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Participate in a Test Day Type=Link URL=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Current Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark EOF %end
3. Create the live image:
livecd-creator -c fedora-livecd-testday.ks --cache /var/cache/live -f "testday-`date +%Y%m%d`"
In case rawhide repository is broken
If current rawhide repository is broken and the livecd can't be built, and you have access to some mirror with older rawhide snapshot, you may edit fedora-livecd-testday.ks and redefine the rawhide repository after the
If current rawhide repository is broken and the livecd can't be built, and you have access to some mirror with older rawhide snapshot, you may edit fedora-livecd-testday.ks and redefine the rawhide repository after the
%include line, for example looking like this:repo --name=rawhide --baseurl=protocol:/path-to-older-rawhide-repository/$basearch/os/
In the worst case you can base the whole livecd on Fedora 11 packages with this definition:
# not really rawhide, overriden with F11 'released' repo repo --name=rawhide --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=$basearch repo --name=updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f11&arch=$basearchDon't forget to comment out these lines when rawhide repository gets fixed.
Using the Live Image
- To write the live image to a USB stick.
- To write the live image to a CD or DVD media.
- To load the live image in KVM or qemu.
Ideas For Improvement
Create a .desktop file with a Test Day URL on the DesktopMake browser default homepage http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Current (suggested by User:sgallagh)- Setup a test day .repo for the running live image (suggested by User:sgallagh)