Repository source .repo file in config.xml

[Michael Cartwright]

Hi all,

I thought I read somewhere that a version of Kiwi-ng would support .repo files in <repository><source> element paths.

i.e.

<repository>

    <source path="https://someserver/allmyrepos.repo"/>

</repository>

Did I dream this?

I was hoping there was some way to add a set of repositories to kiwi in one lump, theoretically utilizing the output of `zypper lr -e allmyrepos.repo`.

FWIW, I'm currently prototyping some new images with:

KIWI (next generation) version 9.21.23

Thanks!

-Mike

[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

> I thought I read somewhere that a version of Kiwi-ng would support
> .repo files in <repository><source> element paths.

That is not quite correct. kiwi creates the .repo files from the
information given in the <repository> element for those package managers
who needs this.

> <repository>
>
> <source path="https://someserver/allmyrepos.repo"/>
>
> </repository>
>
> Did I dream this?

I don't know :) but the above setup would not work the way you expected
it. For this to work we would need to add another uri type, e.g

path="repo://https://someserver/allmyrepos.repo"

and that does not exist yet

> I was hoping there was some way to add a set of repositories to kiwi in
> one lump, theoretically utilizing the output of `zypper lr -e
> allmyrepos.repo`.

If you consider to use a little more code to utilize zypper in this
regard, you can think of the following:

---
#!/bin/bash

repos=$(mktemp --suffix .repo)

zypper lr --export "${repos}" &>/dev/null

for entry in $(cat "${repos}" | grep -E "\[|baseurl=|name=");do
if [[ "${entry}" =~ "[" ]];then
echo -n "<repository "
elif [[ "${entry}" =~ "name=" ]];then
echo "alias=\"$(echo ${entry} | cut -f2 -d=)\">"
elif [[ "${entry}" =~ "baseurl=" ]];then
echo " <source path=\"$(echo ${entry} | cut -f2 -d=)\"/>"
echo "</repository>"
fi
done

rm -f ${repos}
---

This is quick and dirty and not perfect, but maybe sufficient for
your use case ? Other than that I like the idea of allowing kiwi to
read .repo files.

Feel free to open an enhancement issue for this here:

https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/issues

Thoughts ?

Regards,
Marcus
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[Michael Cartwright]

Hi Marcus,

I'm revisiting this discussion to inquire whether or not something like this has been implemented/requested in the past year since I mentioned it...?

I was just about to open an enhancement issue for this in github, but I figured I'd quickly ask if that would still be required, or if something like this has already been implemented and I just haven't taken enough kiwi updates yet to notice.

Thanks,

-Mike