Re: Install debian packages from other sources

[Claudius Heine <claudius.heine.ext@siemens.com>]

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
>>
>>
> 

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