Re: UBIFS images

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 07/11/2011 08:13 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to use UBIFS on my target and I found that the images
> are not quite right. The soft-link points to the wrong file.
>
> $ ls -l tmp/deploy/images/*ubi*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 gthomas gthomas 7483392 Jul 11 07:56 tmp/deploy/images/my_distro-console-image-my_target-20110711135454.ubifs.img
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 gthomas gthomas 62 Jul 11 07:56 tmp/deploy/images/my_distro-console-image-my_target.ubifs -> my_distro-console-image-my_target-20110711135454.rootfs.ubifs
>
> I've looked through meta/classes/image_types.bbclass but it's not
> clear to me [yet] where that soft-link gets built and why it gets
> it wrong.
>
> Any pointers?

Following up on my own question, this patch seems to fix it.

diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index 8c86227..629d5ec 100644
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ IMAGE_CMD_ubi () {
         echo vol_flags=autoresize >> ubinize.cfg
         mkfs.ubifs -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -o ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ubifs ${MKUBIFS_ARGS} && ubinize -o ${D
  }
-IMAGE_CMD_ubifs = "mkfs.ubifs -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -o ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.ubifs.img ${MKUBIFS_ARGS}"
+IMAGE_CMD_ubifs = "mkfs.ubifs -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} -o ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ubifs ${MKUBIFS_ARGS}"

  EXTRA_IMAGECMD = ""
  EXTRA_IMAGECMD_jffs2 ?= "--pad --little-endian --eraseblock=0x40000"

If this looks reasonable, I'll send it on to oe-core

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