From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:21:52 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2] rauc: bump to version 0.2 In-Reply-To: References: <20171114043141.8245-1-ayurovsky@impinj.com> <20171122041747.11363-1-yurovsky@gmail.com> <20171122213336.52a3e196@windsurf.lan> <20171122224412.1543e00d@windsurf.lan> Message-ID: <20171123092152.0f0fac4a@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:11:12 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > > Isn't that specific to your RAUC use case? I assume other people can > > use RAUC without using signed squashfs images. > > > > So perhaps we shouldn't make host-mksquashfs a mandatory dependency > > like your patch does? > > No, that's just how rauc works, there's no other use case. That is, it > always make a signed squashfs image (there's no option to make > unsigned images or any other format). If mksquashfs isn't present, the > host tool is effectively useless since it can't make bundles, that's > why I feel that it's a run-time dependency and needs to be selected. OK, thanks for the explanation! Is this dependency new in 0.2, or it was already needed for the current 0.1.1 version of RAUC ? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com