[meta-freescale] [Question] IMAGE_FSTYPES has no effect on master

[Daiane Angolini]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Amin Bandali <amin.bandali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Up until krogoth, I could adjust IMAGE_FSTYPES in my local.conf to generate
> various types of archives:
>
>     IMAGE_FSTYPES += "tar.bz2 tar.gz"
>
> However, I've noticed that this has no effect on master, and only wic.gz
> archives are generated.
>
> The only relevant piece of information I came across was the following commit:
>
> https://github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale-3rdparty/commit/038b0b737f55ebd2cbc29c91c8274fed422142d4
>
> Any thoughts on how I could generate other image types on master, like I used to
> on krogoth?

Please, try to change the code on
https://github.com/Freescale/meta-freescale-3rdparty/blob/master/conf/machine/wandboard.conf#L49

Instead of
IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic.gz"

use

IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "wic.gz"


Keep IMAGE_FSTYPES += "tar.bz2 tar.gz" in your local.conf, give it a
try and let us know.

Daiane
>
> (I need a tar.gz or tar.bz2 so that I can un-tar them with sudo so that all the
> files and directories have correct permissions. Because the files and folders
> generated by bitbake in this directory
> {YOCTO_BUILD_DIR}/tmp/work/wandboard-poky-linux-gnueabi/{IMAGE}/1.0-r0/rootfs
> are owned by a regular user and when booting over NFS, those permissions cause
> trouble.)
>
> Thanks,
> Amin
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