On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/04/2015 10:20 AM, Ed Bartosh wrote: >> wic requires tools that are not always possible to find in $PATH. >> This causes wic to fail with confusing errors like this: >> External command 'parted' not found, exiting. >> (Please install 'parted' on your host system) >> >> Adding ~/bin/, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, >> /sbin and /bin to the list of paths makes find_binary_path to >> produce more reliable results. > > I'm with Otavio. Given wic is intimately dependent on internal build > artifacts, it should use utilities from the sysroot and not depend on > tools from the path. Let's make wic 100% before creating a tool to build > images from packages.
If we want to have it as a 'standalone' tool we will need to somehow package the tool set for it to use, otherwise we have a maintenance nightmare (does patch X has been applied to Parted?). -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
