Re: Multi repo support

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

Am Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:54:26 +0100
schrieb "[ext] Claudius Heine" <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to start the discussion about how to best implement muti 
> repository support in isar.
> 
> Does someone already has some ideas or even something in the pipeline 
> for this?
> 
> If not then I do have an idea that was outlined together with Jan:
> 
> Adding and configuring apt repositories should be done via config
> files. It should be possible to define own multiconfigs while
> including multiconfigs from other layers. These configs then append
> filepaths to a global variable.
> 
> Every file that is added this way contains 'sources.list' compatible 
> repository definitions. So one repo each line.
>
> For every line in those files a repository entry for multistrap.conf
> is created. Here we might need some more complex code to convert such
> a apt repo tripel to the right format multistrap expects. But by
> using the 'sources.lists' format we would be independent of
> multistrap and become more future proof.
> 
> Comments are welcome.

Sounds good to me, cant wait to review the first patches ;).

Henning
 
> Cheers,
> Claudius
>