On 2017-01-11 00:22, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 08:42:25PM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: >> the imagebuilder should support all that already and it likely fills the >> "powerful desktop tools" part your concept requires. >> > i answered that in my other mail already. > > anyway, specifically regarding the existing imagebuilder, i'm not really > satisfied. it's a big download which is specific to each target, and > requires pretty much a complete build environment. of course, it's the > obvious choice to minimize development effort, but as a user i'd expect > something ... nicer. > > in my understanding, sysupgrade images (and uimages) are a pretty > uniform archive format, just like the feed packages are. that means that > a single generic tool should be able to work with all targets, over > extended periods of time, and would need to support a rather limited > number of features to accomplish the goal of building images from the > "regular" image+package downloads that are already available. sysupgrade images are really not uniform in any way. Different targets use wildly different formats, sometimes different filesystems as well.
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