[poky] post-image-creation postinsts

[Colin Walters]

Hi Richard,

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> It seems to me we could add some mechanism for mounting the image
>> filesystem and running a script in there (guestfs?), or maybe an
>> automated QEMU boot, run the postinsts, and sync/shutdown?
>>
> force the script to run on the target device. If there is a way to run
> this at image generation time (cross safe), tell us what it is and we
> can make it happen at image generation time!

See the bit I quoted from my original mail.  I think the most general
solution is simply "run qemu, then shutdown", and I can look at
automating this inside OE, but was just curious if anyone had any
better ideas.

Would a patch to do this by default for image.bbclass make sense?