Re: proper wic integration

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:02:10 +0100
schrieb Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:18:51PM +0100, Henning Schild wrote:
> > i started looking into intetgrating wic into the build process. And
> > i have a first working version of that code.
> > On the way i found that Isar is using a massively messed-with
> > version of wic. In my point of view that is an absolute
> > show-blocker for any code that builds on top of that.  
> 
> It depends on your priorities. Our goal at ilbers is to give people
> working code first, merge with upstream second.
> 
> 
> > Before anything gets done with wic, we need to revert all patches
> > that touch wic. We should not have a fork of wic but use an
> > unmodified version of it.  
> 
> I agree with the latter. If you come up with an implementation that
> does it without modifying wic, we'd gladly review it. Before that,
> nothing will be reverted in master.

Of cause not, i will send the reverts with the working code.

> > So this mail is just to let you know that i am looking into that.  
> 
> Thanks, this is important to know.

That is why i shared an early version of my work.
 
> > A first working commit can be found here:
> > https://github.com/henning-schild-work/isar/commit/eeba383177a95bf8b03cba70e1525f65813b4df5  
> 
> The commit comment contains dirty words. Please use respectful
> expressions and tone.

Yes sorry about that, that where comments that where not supposed to
leave my local branch.

> > To get that merged i will first move to an untouched version of wic
> > and rebase it on top of that.  
> 
> That is fine with me.

I came up with something that comes very close, only one tiny bit
missing with fsck failing for some reason.

https://github.com/henning-schild-work/isar/commits/henning/staging

Henning
 
> 
> With kind regards,