OS Builder/Add repositories and packages

Additional packages from Fedora

Use the custom_packages module:

• Add 'custom_packages' to the modules list
• Add a new section

 [custom_packages]
 add_packages=
           oneadditionalpackage,
           another-extra-package,
           a-package-with-specific-version-1.33a

Additional packages from RPMFusion

RPM Fusion is a group of repositories that contain many packages that are not in the official Fedora repositories. This recipe shows you how to add packages from these repositories to your build.

NOTE: Some packages, specially on the 'non-free' repositories, have legal restrictions under some jurisdictions. Make sure you know and understand how those apply to you and your users.

Using yumdownloader and a local repository

Currently recommended technique. Use v1.3.1

• On your f11 build host
  • Install yum-utils and createrepo
  • Install/configure the rpmfusion yum repositories - use the rpms for free and non-free
  • Create a directory localrepo, right next to your INI file location
  • Use yumdownloader to fetch the needed rpms, and place them in localrepo. You will probably want to use the --resolve switch
  • In the [repos] section, add

 custom_repo_1=1,localrepo,file://(oob_config_dir)s/localrepo/

Using repos

This technique is more elegant but does not work due to a limitation in v1.3.0

• Start with a working .ini config file
• In the "[repos]" section, add some custom repositories

 [repos]
 ...
 custom_repo_1=