Re: [PATCH 0/9] first wic integration

[Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>]

On 01/31/2018 12:41 PM, Henning Schild wrote:
> 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.
> 

Are there any changes in user interface? Am I right that old commands 
still work?

Alex

> 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
> 

-- 
With best regards,
Alexander Smirnov

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