Re: [PATCH 0/9] first wic integration

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

This series of patches is working and does apply on current next, the
mentioned open points are not new and therefore will be fixed in follow
up patches. I am waiting from review comments.

Henning

Am Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:41:51 +0100
schrieb Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>:

> This is the first official post of a series that aims to do two
> things. 1. integrate wic into Isar so it does not need to be called
> after bitbake
> 2. get our copy of wic back to an unmodified version from OE
> 
> Many people have been asking for the first, so i think i do not need
> to motivate that change. Things this series already brings is control
> over the partition sizes, that we did not have before.
> The choice in working wks files is still limited. The plugins dealing
> with bootloaders (isolinux, syslinux etc.) will probably need to be
> forked (like the efigrub one).
> 
> The second one is important so we can update wic in the future and
> developers do not get confused. Having a fork instead of a copy,
> without a very good reason, is not a good idea. I found that wic does
> not need to be changed and plugins can be forked.
> 
> Henning
> 
> Henning Schild (9):
>   classes: image: introduce size measuring function, for before
>     do_*_image
>   images: new class wic-img for wic intregration
>   wic: add a bootimg-efi-isar plugin outside the wic tree
>   Revert "wic: Make the bootimg-efi plugin generate usable images"
>   Revert "wic: Introduce the `WicExecError` exception class"
>   Revert "wic: Work around mcopy error"
>   Revert "wic: Use sudo instead of pseudo"
>   Revert "wic: Remove sysroot support"
>   wic: now truly go for the wic version we claim to have
> 
>  .../scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/sdimage-efi.wks     |   2 +-
>  .../lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-efi-isar.py     | 307
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> meta/classes/ext4-img.bbclass                      |   7 +-
> meta/classes/image.bbclass                         |  19 ++
> meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass                       |  64 +++++
> scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/qemux86-directdisk.wks  |   2 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/engine.py                          |   7 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py                         |   6 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/help.py                            |   2 -
> scripts/lib/wic/ksparser.py                        |   4 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/partition.py                       | 197
> ++++++++----- scripts/lib/wic/pluginbase.py                      |
> 11 +- scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py           |  66 +++--
> scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-efi.py      |  78
> +----- .../lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-partition.py    |   6 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-pcbios.py   |  68 ++---
> scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/fsimage.py          |  56
> ++++ .../lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage-isohybrid.py   |  28 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rawcopy.py          |   2 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/rootfs.py           |   4 +-
> scripts/lib/wic/utils/misc.py                      |  33 +--
> scripts/lib/wic/utils/runner.py                    |  74 ++++-
> scripts/wic                                        |  27 +-
> scripts/wic_fakeroot                               |  37 +++ 24 files
> changed, 846 insertions(+), 261 deletions(-) create mode 100644
> meta-isar/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/bootimg-efi-isar.py create
> mode 100644 meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass create mode 100644
> scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/fsimage.py create mode 100755
> scripts/wic_fakeroot
>