[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] package/mender: adding a writable location

[Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>]

Mender needs /var/lib/mender to be writable at the service start, the
path is hardcoded and thus we cannot change it.
This patch solves the problem using the same approach we have for
dropbear.

Signed-off-by: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo@amarulasolutions.com>
---
 package/mender/mender.mk      |  2 ++
 package/mender/mender.service | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/mender/mender.mk b/package/mender/mender.mk
index a5cece7..1f66615 100644
--- a/package/mender/mender.mk
+++ b/package/mender/mender.mk
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ define MENDER_INSTALL_CONFIG_FILES
 		$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 $(@D)/support/mender-inventory-$(f) \
 			$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/mender/inventory/mender-inventory-$(f)
 	)
+
+	ln -snf /var/run/mender $(TARGET_DIR)/var/lib/mender
 endef
 
 MENDER_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += MENDER_INSTALL_CONFIG_FILES
diff --git a/package/mender/mender.service b/package/mender/mender.service
index 9ede55a..8b60a4f 100644
--- a/package/mender/mender.service
+++ b/package/mender/mender.service
@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ After=systemd-resolved.service
 Type=idle
 User=root
 Group=root
-ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p -m 0700 /data/mender
+ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '\
+if [ -L /var/lib/mender \
+     -a "$(readlink /var/lib/mender)" = "/var/run/mender" ]; then \
+    if rm -f /var/lib/mender >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+        mkdir -p /var/lib/mender; \
+    else \
+        echo "No persistent location to store mender data. Data will be lost\
+        echo "at reboot. Are you sure this is what you want to do?"; \
+        mkdir -p "$(readlink /var/lib/mender)"; \
+    fi; \
+fi'
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mender -daemon
 Restart=on-abort
 
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2.7.4