Quoting Jan Kiszka (2019-02-25 12:15:32)
> On 25.02.19 10:32, Henning Schild wrote:
> > Am Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:48:38 +0100
> > schrieb "[ext] Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
> >> On 25.02.19 09:44, Claudius Heine wrote:
[...]
> >>> But of course if you now have a '*-debug' and '*-release'
> >>> multiconfig, you cannot build that in parallel if one package is
> >>> build with two different variables.
> >>>
> >>> And that exactly hits the mark with the problem I have with the way
> >>> Isar uses multiconfigs and tries to share packages from different
> >>> multiconfigs.
> >>>
> >>> IMO if you want to continue doing it that way, you would need to
> >>> have a 'isar-cfg-localpurge-debug' and a 'isar-cfg-userpw-debug'.
> >>> And do that for all possible other configurations you want to build
> >>> in parallel...
> >>
> >> Awkward. We need to stop this weird patterns which require too much
> >> boilerplate recipes to achieve very simple things. Let's just make
> >> these variables per-image.
> > 
> > I had a feeling that same PN-PV but different content could be a
> > problem. And here we go. But Claudius is right, either we have
> > different packages (by name and/or version) or we do not use packages
> > for such tasks. Per Image variables will not work, the last
> > do_deploy_deb will win and set the password for every image sharing the
> > repo.
> 
> Right, we need to discuss about that "everything is a package" in this context. 
> I may make Isar life easier, but not Isar user's life. Also, it's deviating with 
> the image configuration from OE.

I now took a look exactly how OE manage that, and that seems to answer
my previous question. The implementation seems a bit complex, but I
guess that it could be adapted to fit Isars purposes.

regards,
Claudius

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