Hi,

from what I gather with isar, it is currently not possible to build
debian packages directly in an isar recipe conveniently.

There are a couple of scenarios for this:

  - Package configuration and interpreted files.
  - Build meta or virtual packages that just contain only dependencies
    Instead of installing specific packages into a image, install only
one virtual package with every package that is needed for the target as
a dependency

  - Compile sources in a buildchroot and package it even if the sources
are not debianized.

Currently I am looking into a generic way to deploy lxc containers with
isar to the target. So some mechanism like this might come in handy.

Are some of those points already possible or is someone working on
them?

Cheers,
Claudius

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