> > recipes intentionally don't require root privileges. That's a good
> > thing. In a past life (MeeGo?) I had package installs running as root
> > in a chroot mess up my bind-mounted /dev filesystem, affecting the host.
> > Luckily that never caused permanent damage.
> >
> > Some things that MIC does (loop-mounting the disk image to partition
> > and format it) require root privileges and thus cannot be done in recipes.
>
> So how does yocto create images without mounting files via loopback?
wic uses uses mkfs.ext4 -d to convert directory into the image
Here is a quote from mkfs.ext4 man:
-d root-directory
Add the files from the root-directory to the filesystem.
You can find wic sources in openembedded tree I believe.
Regards,
Ed
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