Hello,
On 12/08/2021 05:26:47-0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> asking from a position of massive ignorance since i just started
> digging into wic, but i've been reliably assured that i am going to
> encounter issues with trying to get wic to create what i choose to
> call "multi-partition" images, and i just want to know if this is an
> actual issue.
>
> current wic setup is to create an image which supports what i'll
> call the "preserve" partition -- distinct partition to hold
> non-upgradeable content; factory default firmware, non-volatile S/W
> config settings, that sort of thing, that is meant to be preserved
> across software upgrades. nothing unusual about this, strikes me as
> pretty standard.
>
> now, any recipe in the current build is allowed to contribute its
> own preserve data by adding it to a top-level "/preserve" directory.
> that directory is added to the content of the base package:
>
> FILES_${PN} += "/preserve"
>
> and in the end, the wic image is responsible for taking everything
> under /preserve in the final rootfs and installing it in the preserve
> partition, wholly separate from however it installs the remainder of
> the rootfs.
>
> does wic have a problem with doing this? it seems so straightforward
> that i'm having trouble believing wic can't do it. thoughts? or
> perhaps a link to some reference board or vendor that has a .wks file
> that does exactly that?
In your wks.in, you can simply do something like that:
part / --source rootfs --fstype=ext4 --label root --exclude-path=preserve/
part /preserve --source rootfs --rootfs-dir=${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/preserve
--fstype=ext4 --label preserve
--
Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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