[systemd-devel] mkosi question: third party repos + dnf modules

[Daan De Meyer]

Hi,

--repositories in mkosi is currently a bit limited. For Fedora and
CentOS, we only support passing names of existing repositories that
should be enabled. https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/issues/536
reported a similar problem. We should definitely make this work better
than it does now but it's going to require a bit of thinking on how to
properly support this in a way that works for all major supported
distros. For now, I think postinst is the best solution.

Cheers,

Daan

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 10:28, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> Trying to create some CentOS 8 images with mkosi 8
>
> Is it possible to use the --repositories argument to mkosi to enable a
> third party repository? If so can you tell me the secret syntax?
>
> I've tried:
>
> --repositories=https://..../mirrorlist
> --repositories=https://..../directlink
>
> both say: unknown repo
>
>
> I've tried copying in the appropriate *.repo files via
> mkosi.skeleton/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo and then referring to the repo by
> name rather than URL and it doesn't work either (also tried full path
> within container and file:// prefixed path) with the same unknown repo
> error.
>
>
> I know I could do this with a postinst script but I feel like this
> should be possible via the --repositories argument!
>
> (NB, I'm actually using Repositories= in the [Distribution] section of
> an mkosi.default file rather than the command line directly but this
> /shouldn't/ make a difference!]
>
> The next question is: can we setup dnf modules as part of the initial
> install? If not, then I'll likely have to go down the postinst route
> anyway in this case, but the above is still interesting for e.g. custom
> COPR repos etc.
>
> Cheers
>
> Col
>
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