From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:42:24 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/8] package/mender: add BR2_PACKAGE_MENDER_DEVICE_TYPE option In-Reply-To: References: <20180814231337.19114-1-mirza.krak@northern.tech> <20180814231337.19114-6-mirza.krak@northern.tech> <20180815135507.6c321a4a@windsurf> Message-ID: <20180815144224.49d967a7@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:26:46 +0200, Mirza Krak wrote: > > I am a bit confused with "Note that /data is a mount point for the > > persistent data partition". If /data is a different partition than the > > root filesystem one, then what is the point of > > having /data/mender/device_type in the root filesystem ? It will be > > hidden by whatever partition gets mounted in /data. > > Understand the confusion, my intention was to convert the /data > directory on target image to an ext4 image in a post build step Why do you want to do this ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com