[poky] post-image-creation postinsts

Joshua Lock josh at linux.intel.com
Tue May 3 16:22:58 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 19:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> 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", 

Wouldn't this only work for images where there's kernel support for the
QEMU emulated devices? 

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre




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