Re: [PATCH 0/6] Local apt cache with aptly

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-02-06 11:09, 'Benedikt Niedermayr' via isar-users wrote:
> Hi all,
> this series implements a PoC for running reproducible builds.
> The core is based on aptly, which is a nice mirroring tool for debian repositories.
> 
> The mirroring solution does the following:
> - Aptly generates a mirrors for upstream repositories as well as snapshots and also a local repository for isar packages.
> - Get a list of all packages for mirroring before rootfs and buildchroot is beeing created.
>   This is done by running an own bitbake cooker for parsing the recipes by taking append files,
>   configs, datastore and also selected layers(bblayers) into account.
>   This solves the problem when upstream repos getting updates between rootfs and buildchroot creation.
> - Aptly will recieve the list of packages and calculates all further required dependencies for the mirror.
> - Rootfs and buildchroot will never pull from upstream repos but instead from the local mirrors.
> 
> 
> Open Questions:
> - Think about a more dynamic multistrap.conf generation. Ŕunning sed to multiconfig templates is not really flexible.
> - Get a better naming convention for aptly mirrors, snapshots and repos. This will help to get multiconfig compatible.
>   Where are pros and cons here?
> - Where to store the cache? TMPDIR might not be the best location.
> 
> This series is based on commit 384750d of next branch.
> Running with multiconfig was not tested, yet. But maybe you can do it?
> 
> 
> Benedikt Niedermayr (6):
>   Implement support for setting up the local apt mirror and isar
>     repository with aptly.
>   Added API class for apt cache.

Ordering of patch 1 and 2 is wrong.

Jan

>   Added apt-cache functionality for buildchroot.
>   Added apt-cache functionality for image rootfs.
>   Added do_finalize_image task.
>   Added support for installing isar packages to local isar repository.
> 
>  .../recipes-core/images/files/multistrap.conf.in   |   8 +-
>  meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb   |  22 +-
>  meta/classes/apt-cache.bbclass                     | 235 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/classes/dpkg-base.bbclass                     |  15 +-
>  meta/classes/image.bbclass                         |  23 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/buildchroot/buildchroot.bb   |  35 ++-
>  .../buildchroot/files/multistrap.conf.in           |  17 +-
>  meta/recipes-devtools/isar-apt/files/aptly.conf.in |  17 ++
>  meta/recipes-devtools/isar-apt/isar-apt.bb         | 131 ++++++++++--
>  9 files changed, 454 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta/classes/apt-cache.bbclass
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/isar-apt/files/aptly.conf.in
> 
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