Re: [PATCH v2] wic/isoimage-isohybrid: check for grub-mkimage

[Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>]

Hi

On Wed, 04 Jan 2017, Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 10:12:55PM +0200, Ed Bartosh wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:04:43PM +0200, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
>> > The isohybrid plugin uses grub-mkimage but doesn't make sure it gets built.
>> > Add a check to avoid the following error:
>> > 
>> > Error: A native program grub-mkimage required to build the image was not found (see details above).
>> > 
>> > Wic failed to find a recipe to build native grub-mkimage. Please file a bug against wic.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com>
>> > ---
>> >  scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage-isohybrid.py | 5 +++++
>> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage-isohybrid.py b/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage-isohybrid.py
>> > index 849fd8bea3..d616316d61 100644
>> > --- a/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage-isohybrid.py
>> > +++ b/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/source/isoimage-isohybrid.py
>> > @@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ class IsoImagePlugin(SourcePlugin):
>> >              msger.info("Building mtools-native...\n")
>> >              exec_cmd("bitbake mtools-native")
>> >  
>> > +        # Make sure grub-mkimage is available in native sysroot
>> > +        if not os.path.isfile("%s/usr/bin/grub-mkimage" % native_sysroot):
>> > +            msger.info("Building grub-native...\n")
>> > +            exec_cmd("bitbake grub-native")
>> > +
>> >      @classmethod
>> >      def do_configure_partition(cls, part, source_params, creator, cr_workdir,
>> >                                 oe_builddir, bootimg_dir, kernel_dir,
>> 
>> Unfortunately this approach will not work if wic is run from bitbake.
>> 
>> I'd suggest to simply add grub-native to NATIVE_RECIPES dictionary in
>> scripts/lib/wic/utils/oe/misc.py
>> It will make error message more informative and useful.
>> 
> The same should probably be done with the rest of native tools called from
> this module. It's better to avoid building them implicitly.

Thank you for the feedback. I agree. I will send another patch.

Ionel

>
> --
> Regards,
> Ed