[elbe-devel] Private debian repo

[Manuel Traut]

Hi Ralf,

On 17:52 Sun 20 Nov     , Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> I need some build dependencies packaged as private .deb packages for
> building a target package with pbuilder.
> 
> - Is it enough to just sign the top-level Release file (e.g. produce
>   dists/jessie/Release.gpg)
> - How do I tell Elbe that it needs to trust another repo key?
>   Is there some analogy for apt-key add for elbe?

<url>
	<binary>http...</binary>
	<source>http...</source>
	<key>http://bla.com/my.pubkey</key>
</url>

We need to improve that someday that we store the public key inside the XML.

> That asked, is there an easy way to combine pbuilder and the image
> builder to first create some private .deb and then build an image with
> that .deb installed? Or do I always need to set up a private repo for
> this?
> (I need a private repo anyway for the build deps needed to build the
> target .deb but it would be nice to combine the two steps above)
>

https://github.com/Linutronix/elbe/wiki/Tutorial:-rootfs-with-custom-debian-packages

should answer most of your questions.

   Manuel