Re: Discussion: Base-apt features

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:56:37PM +0200, Claudius Heine wrote:
> >>> 2. Support for using password protected keys.
> Right. It would just be inconvenient to switch between those
> configurations for the different use cases that should be satisfiable
> simultaneously without change of configuration files or deleting build
> results.
> 
> I am currently not using Isar, but is something like this possible?
> 
>   BASE_REPO_KEY = "" bitbake ...
>   BASE_REPO_KEY = "prod.key" bitbake ...

That would be indeed convenient. We could look whether bitbake supports that.


> >>> 4. Support for adding packages only to base-apt.
> 
> Two departments of the same company, one that develops debian bin and
> possible src packages and deploys them to a internal repo for other
> departments to use, and the other department that takes these packages
> and installs them to an image for the customer. Those packages are not
> build by isar then and would be placed in the base-apt repo together
> with the src package for delivery to the end-customer, which might not
> be what was desired.
> 
> We should probably just check the license and only deliver packages that
> are required to be redistributed.

Thanks for the scenario, we could consider covering this in some way.


With kind regards,
Baurzhan.