Re: Install debian packages from other sources

[Francesco <fdprnd@dave.eu>]

Thanks for the example provided.

I have now created a custom image file on another layer. Inside this 
image I set the IMAGE_PREINSTALL variable with other packages I want to 
install on my final target image.

At the end of the building process I noticed that the version of the 
packages does not correspond to the version of the packages of my added 
repo, but it is instead that from the original repo.

I also would like to ask another thing. I tried to write a recipe to 
install a custom application in .deb format. The deb file is this time 
fetched from the host fs.

My custom image inherits from the isar-base-image, and I would like to 
simply execute dpkg -i mypackage from the target rootfs. How am I 
supposed to write a recipe for this?

Thanks

Frank


On 19/04/2018 09:10, Claudius Heine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-04-18 20:26, Henning Schild wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you can do two things. You can actually go ahead and just fetch .deb
>> files from somewhere in a package-recipe. Or you could derive and
>> image-recipe from isar-image-base where you add another sources.list
>> file to DISTRO_APT_SOURCES.
>
> Yes 'DISTRO_APT_SOURCES' is the right variable, but setting it in an 
> image recipe doesn't do anything. You have to expand it in a *.conf 
> file or in a isar-bootstrap.bbappend file.
>
> Personally I would create a new configs like this:
>
>   conf/distro/custom.conf:
>     require conf/distro/debian-stretch.conf
>     DISTRO_APT_SOURCES += "conf/distro/custom.list"
>
>   conf/distro/custom.list:
>     deb http://url/to/repo suite component
>
>   conf/multiconfig/custom-config.conf:
>     require conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-stretch.conf
>     DISTRO = "custom"
>
> For just testing you could also put
> 'DISTRO_APT_SOURCES_append = " conf/distro/custom.list"'
> in the local.conf, you will also need the custom.list at the right place.
>
> Cheers,
> Claudius
>
>> We still lack an example for that, but Claudius might have one. >
>> If we are talking about a proper repo and not some random drop-location
>> for .debs the latter would be the way to go.
>>
>> Henning
>>
>> Am Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:12:31 +0200
>> schrieb Francesco <fdprnd@dave.eu>:
>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> I would like to fetch debian packages from other repositories and
>>> then install them into the rootfs.
>>>
>>> Which is the right way to achieve this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Frank
>>>
>>>
>>
>