Hi! I'm building an image for a production system, let's call it 'production-image'. All required artifacts (kernel, dtbs, bootloader and the image itself) are built by the process as expected and available in tmp/deploy/images. The production machine is configured to boot from flash.
As a production tool, I use a variation of the final target, the main difference being it boots from SD card. The image it boots (i.e. 'flasher-image'), runs a tool for flashing SOMs (the hardware is modular) with the production artifacts. It would be nice to have a package installed in flasher-image that provides all the artifacts required by the flasher tool in order to flash production-image together with other binaries it needs. Having such a package available through a package feed would simplify future upgrades of artifacts on potentially many (and distributed) such flashing stations. Being that package, say 'production-image-mymachine-artifacts' the same or not as the one providing the flashing tool should not be the real issue here. I've being reasoning and doing some trial mostly following a couple approaches. At first I've considered building the package as a sort of 'side-effect' of building production-image itself but it seems like an awkward idea since image recipes are not designed to build packages. I then crafted a separate recipe, which depends on 'production-image' and that I can use to package artifacts. Before trying to refine this last approach, currently very rough (it uses hardcoded names for all the artifacts) but somewhat promising, I stopped by to ask for some community wisdom. Does anyone know of any custom layer doing something similar to what I'm looking for? Do you even think this is something reasonable/feasible with the current tooling? I don't know of any other part of the build system, other than the wic utility, that's designed to use artifacts as inputs for further processing. In the hope I've been clear enough in explaining my needs. TIA for any clue or suggestions. -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
