[yocto] [wic] Creating sdimage-bootpart

[Ed Bartosh]

Hi Rudolf,

Interesting. I thought that this commit shoud fix the issue:
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=264c03e854f77c3b62acb710384f66716ccbf469

Which branch do you use?

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 08:42:02AM -0800, Rudolf J Streif wrote:
> I tried creating an image with wic using sdimage-bootpart which produces this 
> error message:
> 
> ---------
> wic create sdimage-bootpart -e core-image-base -D
> Checking basic build environment...
> Done.
> 
> Creating image(s)...
> 
> <removed for clarity>
>   File 
> "/run/media/rstreif/YoctoDevelop/yocto/poky/scripts/lib/wic/imager/direct.py", 
> line 67, in __init__
>     self.ptable_format = self.ks.bootloader.ptable
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ptable'
> ---------
> 
> 
> The reason for this message is that sdimage-bootpart.wks does not have a 
> bootloader entry and consequently self.ks.bootloader = None.
> 
> As a workaround you can of course simply adding a bootloader entry to the wks 
> even if it's not needed/used when creating an image for Beaglebone etc.
> 
> The question is what the correct behavior should be:
> 
> 1. bootloader entry in wks is mandatory, then the wks parser should flag it as 
> an error if it's not present.
> 
> 2. bootloader entry in wks is optional, then the DirectImageCreator class 
> should be able to handle that correctly.
> 
> 
> I think the latter should be the correct behavior. However, the 
> DirectImageCreator class has some troublesome reliance on that entry, in 
> particular that the source plugin for the overall image creation seems to be, 
> for convenience reasons supposedly, associated with it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rudi
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Regards,
Ed