Add filters to targets and environments

[M1chka]

Would it be possible to have a filter added like "architectures" for specific targets and environments in the builder config?

[monstermunchkin]

We could add filters for each environment variable. But what's the use case for filters in targets? Could you please paste an example of how you'd do filtering there?

[M1chka]

Id like something like this:

targets:
  lxc:
    config:
      - type: all
        content: |-
          lxc.arch = {{ image.architecture_personality }}
          #### Some specific settings that I only want to apply on the armhf device
        architectures:
          - armhf
      - type: all
        content: |-
          lxc.arch = {{ image.architecture_personality }}
          #### Some specific settings that I only want to apply on the amd64 device
        architectures:
          - amd64

For context:

We got software running within an LXC on newly developed hardware running with am amd64 mcu but we want to make the software backwards compatible on our old hardware running with a arm32 mcu. The communication between the new hardware/64bitmcu and the old hardware/32bitmcu is slightly different but can be properly setup within the LXC conf.

Right now I merge two yaml files together (targets and the rest), but since filters are a thing I thought it could be made easier.

[monstermunchkin]

Thanks for that.

We can certainly add those filters.

[M1chka]

Thats great!