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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] swupdbundle: new class to generate virtual images for swupd-image
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Hi Patrick,

Apologies for the delayed response.

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 18:06 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 14:52 +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > 
> > Our initial strategy to generate bundles for consumption by swupd
> > is to generate images which contain the base image (os-core) plus
> > the additional contents of the bundle, then prune out the core
> > contents. By generating images in this manner we hope to accomodate
> > packages which modify the rootfs outside of installing files, i.e.
> > with postinsts.
> > 
> > To that end this class, to be used via BBCLASSEXTEND, will generate
> > virtual image recipes that add extra packages to the extended
> > image.
> Can this be combined with an image recipe which itself uses
> BBCLASSEXTEND to generate virtual image recipes, i.e. create a
> virtual
> recipes based on a virtual recipe?

Currently this doesn't work, but I've just filed a bug to handle this
scenario: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9192

Regards,

Joshua