On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:00 +0100, Andrea Adami wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Darren Hart <dvh...@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 01/05/2012 04:30 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 01:05 +0100, Andrea Adami wrote: >> >>> I'd say we have to test for the in-existence of the file instead of >> >>> blindly touching it. >> >>> Smthg like >> >>> >> >>> if [! -e ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/init]; then >> >>> touch ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/init >> >>> fi >> > >> > Why? Touch creates it if it doesn't exist and updates the modtime if it >> > does. It doesn't modify the content of the file if it exists. What is >> > the motivation for testing for it's existence? >> > >> touch fails with Permission denied because one package in my rootfs >> already created the symlink >> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Now, repeating that block for all 4 cpio images is a bit ugly... better >> >>> ideas? >> >> >> >> Make it a shell function we call? I'd also check for >> >> ${base_sbindir}/init first too? >> > >> > Why check for that? So we can link to it instead of creating an empty file? >> >> Nonsense, kernel looks for /init >> ( >> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt >> ) > > Yes, please ignore my comment about /sbin/init, I'm misremembering > something. We should deal with the symlink case though. > > Cheers, > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
ok, I think the issue is the behavior of touch when trying to change the timestamp of a symlink. http://fossplanet.com/f13/bug-7122-touch-gnu-coreutils-7-4-no-way-touch-symlink-57418/ Using 'touch -h' seems solving the issue and the image is built. However, the timestamp of the /init symlink now differs from the timestamp of the binary. Regards Andrea _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core