You're exactly right - the "otherpkgs" repo is for packages that are not part
of the official OS distribution.
Note that if you use "osimage" then you can specify a comma-separated list of
package directories for both pkgdir and otherpkgsdir. You will need to run
"createrepo" in each of the package directories that you intend to use.
> On June 22, 2018 at 5:34 AM Jeff Berry <jeff.be...@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Good morning all,
>
>
>
> when building images with extra packages, what is considered best
> practice? Or to rephrase, what are the pros and cons of:
>
> · adding lots of packages to the pglist file, as opposed to
>
> · creating a repo and using otherpkglist and otherpkgdir
>
>
>
> I can see where otherpgkdir/list would be useful for non-distro rpms. Is
> that the main usage case?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Jeff Berry, MRC-CBU
>
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