From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] wic: ship the tools it needs where it is packaged
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 03:54:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701075411.1092848-1-twoerner@gmail.com> (raw)
wic shells out to a number of host-side tools (parted, mkdosfs, mcopy,
the mkfs.* family, mdir, sfdisk, e2fsck, resize2fs, ...) but does not
declare them as dependencies. For the bitbake do_image_wic task this is
covered by the wic-tools recipe. Wherever else wic is installed as a
package it gets none of them, and its offline lookup (wic ls/cp/write)
falls back to the host PATH, so wic works only by chance depending on
what the host has installed:
wic.WicError: Can't find executable 'mcopy'
This series makes wic carry its own tool dependencies wherever it is
packaged, and then takes advantage of that to offer it in the SDK:
1. move the helper-tool list shared with wic-tools into wic-tools.inc
2. have nativesdk-wic RDEPEND that list, so wic is complete wherever it
is packaged
3. simplify buildtools-extended-tarball to just nativesdk-wic
4. add nativesdk-wic to the standard SDK host packagegroup
The native and target wic variants are unaffected; the tools are added
to the nativesdk variant only. cdrtools (mkisofs) is native-only with
no nativesdk variant and so is not included.
Trevor Woerner (4):
wic-tools.inc: add
wic: add runtime dependencies on the tools it invokes
buildtools-extended-tarball: use nativesdk-wic
nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host: add wic
.../meta/buildtools-extended-tarball.bb | 4 +---
meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb | 15 ++++++------
meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.inc | 24 +++++++++++++++++++
.../nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host.bb | 1 +
meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb | 18 ++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.inc
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-01 7:54 Trevor Woerner [this message]
2026-07-01 7:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] wic-tools.inc: add Trevor Woerner
2026-07-01 7:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] wic: add runtime dependencies on the tools it invokes Trevor Woerner
2026-07-01 7:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] buildtools-extended-tarball: use nativesdk-wic Trevor Woerner
2026-07-01 7:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] nativesdk-packagegroup-sdk-host: add wic Trevor Woerner
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