From: Marc Ferland <ferlandm@sonatest.com>
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Runtime update of yocto-images
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:51:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk457w6r.fsf@sonatest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D9A15604-C508-4314-B4DC-B6F52691EC51@jusst.de> (Julian Scheel's message of "Mon, 1 Oct 2012 22:18:12 +0200")
Julian Scheel <julian@jusst.de> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how everyone deals with runtime updates of yocto based
> systems? Are you using the package management for this? Actually I'd
> prefer a one-file update, which would replace the whole rootfs. I
> think having a squashfs image containing the rootfs and place it on
> some ext-partition would be nice. One would just need an initramfs,
> that could mount the squashfs file as root.
>
> Is anyone following an approach like this?
This is the approach that I've taken. Works fairly well.
You will need to:
- Create your own init script (look in:
meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files as a starting point)
- Patch your kernel with AUFS/unionfs/overlayfs if you want something
that is not 100% volatile.
- Create an "install/update" script that actually takes care of updating
your squashfs rootfs from the initramfs.
Marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 20:18 Runtime update of yocto-images Julian Scheel
2012-10-01 20:51 ` Marc Ferland [this message]
2012-10-03 6:20 ` Khem Raj
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