Is there any workaround for people who want it just to be working?
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Actually, --ppa sounds as complicated as --mirror to me. You have to
do (too) much effort to build an ppa first. The workaround proposed by
Nick sounds better in this respect, but still I think that it has the
disadvantage that it is tinkering, because you copy in deb files which -
even when you
If I understand this correctly, your patch is only loosely related to
the original intention of this bug and the discussion, as it only allows
adding items to the sources.list and thus requires a PPA-site or manual
copying of .deb-files into the VM?
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Exactly! The --addpkg switch just adds packages from the repositories,
which are specified by --mirror. Therefore only debs from official
repositories can be added.
Now when I have a package which is not available in any repository (a
custom deb), I didn't find a simple way to include it in the
Ok - I didn't know this option did exist (the documentation is
incomplete, but this has been already reported). The proposed solution
sounds better than my initial workaround thoughts, but still it sounds
like tinkering. I would have to script copying the files into the
filesystem, chrooting into
Public bug reported:
Currently, I see no way for adding custom DEB-packages to a VM when
building it with ubuntu-vm-builder. I thought of two workarounds for
this problem:
- use apt-proxy to create a local mirror first, include the packages there
(which involves creating an own package site
