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

[Amin Bandali]

Hello Daiane,

Thanks for the reply, that indeed worked! It'd be nice to have this
change merged upstream.

Amin

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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