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Hello Ulrich,

IMAGE_INSTALL variable is used for recipe dependency, those recipes will be
built and debs with those names will be installed.
What you are trying to achieve should be done with IMAGE_PREINSTALL
variable,
it will just install the deb.

23.04.2026 12:11, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of moving our image generation from ELBE to Isar -
> and of course
> I'm running into unforseen situations ;-)
>
> ELBE relies on apt-repositories where already build packages are
> stored, ready for
> installation on the target, therefore we have all our custom stuff
> already build and
> available as Debian packages and I surely do not want to rebuild these
> packages in
> Isar.
>
> So, I added an extra layer and appended a sources list file
> to DISTRO_APT_SOURCES,
> pointing to our local apt-repository (aptly) and added one of our
> locally hosted
> packages to IMAGE_INSTALL. This somewhat naive approach backfired
> immediatetly
> when trying to build an image:
>
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'XXXX' (but
> mc:qemuarm64-trixie:/home/isar/isar-image/isar/meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb
> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it
>
> where XXXX is the locally hosted package name.
>
> This is probably expected behaviour, I assume. What would be the best
> way to tackle that?
> Overwriting the part of the Isar-bootstrapping where the package lists
> are build?
> Defining another list of packages to be installed after bootstrapping
> is complete?
> I'd like to avoid adding recipies for every local package,
>
> thanks in advance for every suggestion,
> Uli
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