Re: [PATCH] wic: move out all files ending on "direct*"

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 08.04.21 10:44, Henning Schild wrote:
> Am Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:32:32 +0200
> schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
> 
>> On 08.04.21 10:05, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:
>>> wic can compress images, in which case they would have a suffix
>>> plus our new version of wic keeps individual partitions that might
>>> be valuable to some, they also have a suffix we used to not move out
>>>   
>>
>> I vaguely recall some partition extraction classes for SWUpdate
>> scenarios - room for improvements, Quirin? Or are we using that
>> feature already?
> 
> I know, with swupdate we often wanted those single partitions but did
> not have them because wic did not keep them. Now wic seems to keep
> them, which might make later extraction not needed anymore.
> 
> I have compression as a separate task in some layers, when i wanted to
> finally upstream it i found that wic supports it already.
> i.e. bz2 compression is really good to shrink artifacts in CI, and
> https://www.balena.io/etcher/ can uncompress that. Which means Mac and
> Windows users can flash with a mouse what comes out of CI.

That's even greater to hear: I was recently asked for such a flashing
tool internally ("Does Isar have something like
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-imager-imaging-utility/?")
and also pointed to Etcher as one option. The smoother things work with
it, the better. Maybe worth to add a section to the user manual?

Jan

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