Re: [PATCH 0/3] use local repo for multistrap and drop "dpkg -i"

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Wed, 2 Aug 2017 09:04:36 +0200
schrieb Claudius Heine <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>:

> On 08/02/2017 08:16 AM, [ext] Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > On 2017-08-01 17:24, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:  
> >> This series introduces support for a local repository to be used
> >> instead of "dpkg -i" after bootstrap. The do_populate task was
> >> dropped. 
> > 
> > I think this also provides a nice path to extract all packages for
> > archiving purposes and replay installations from them.  
> 
> That would just archive your own packages though.
> As we discussed offline, it would be nice to fetch all required
> packages into an local repo first and then use just this repo to
> install everything to the rootfs/buildchroot. This way you would not
> depend on the package archiving from upstream. But I currently don't
> know how to do that. Maybe we should look into what is possible with
> [1] and integrate it into isar.

Multistrap has something called retainsources i am hoping that will
help once we do everything with multistrap and drop any rootfs-changes
after it.

Henning

> Cheers,
> Claudius
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/python-apt/
> 
> > 
> > What would be a strategy to enable multiple Debian repo sources on
> > top of that?
> > 
> > Jan
> >   
> >> It is based on the previous series i sent but it should not be too
> >> hard to rebase it. Please let me know if it should be rebased.
> >>
> >> Henning Schild (3):
> >>    classes: images: remove cyclic "inherit"
> >>    classes: move rootfs into image class and split into tasks
> >>    classes: image: remove populate and replace it with a custom
> >> repo
> >>
> >>   .../recipes-core/images/files/multistrap.conf.in   | 10 ++-
> >>   meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb   | 43
> >> +----------- meta/classes/ext4-img.bbclass                      |
> >> 4 +- meta/classes/image.bbclass                         | 76
> >> +++++++++++++++++----- 4 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 58
> >> deletions(-) 
> >