Package managers can defer running postinst scripts to first boot, which can take a while on some systems. E.g. The output of `opkg configure` (or whatever pm is used) is redirected to a file when logging is enabled ($POSTINST_LOGGING == 1), making the machine appear hung during this process. This change simply prints a wait message on the console to inform the user of this potentially long and silent operation so they do not mistakenly reboot the machine.
Why not simply `tee` the output instead? Tee might be provided by BusyBox in some distros, which may need to run update-alternatives in the very postinst scripts being executed by this process. It's therefore not safe to assume Tee (or any other packaged util) is available until the configure process finishes. Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <[email protected]> --- meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts b/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts index 04ba394..660ddc2 100755 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/run-postinsts/run-postinsts/run-postinsts @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ if [ -z "$pi_dir" ]; then exit 0 fi +echo "Configuring packages on first boot...." +echo " (This may take several minutes. Please do not power off the machine.)" + [ -e #SYSCONFDIR#/default/postinst ] && . #SYSCONFDIR#/default/postinst if [ "$POSTINST_LOGGING" = "1" ]; then -- 2.10.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
