Re: Configuring Channels for Smart PM

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

Hi Ash,

On Wednesday 24 July 2013 18:59:30 Ash Charles wrote:
> I'm looking to use a bbappend to add a repository/channel that the
> smart package manager can use out of the box.  For zypper, this was
> just a question of adding a configuration file to the recipe.
> 
> How might I preconfigure Smart?  The only way I've come up with so far
> is a postinst 'smart channel --add....'

It does seem like Smart is geared more to configuration via the command line 
rather than editing the configuration file directly.

One approach you could take would be to add a shell function to your image 
recipe (or some class that multiple image recipes can inherit) that adds the 
feeds, and trigger that from ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND; this would add the 
feeds to your image when the image is generated. Something like this:


add_custom_smart_config() {
	smart --data-dir=${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/var/lib/smart channel --add ... -y
}

ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "add_custom_smart_config ; "


It would be nice to have something built-in for this. I'll add it to my todo 
list.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre