[PATCH v9 1/5] wic: add recipe

Trevor Woerner
2026-04-03T18:36:15Z

Add a recipe for the external wic utility from
https://git.yoctoproject.org/wic. Add wic to the list of native
wic-tools, and make it a dependency of the image bbclass for wic images.

Add myself as maintainer for this new recipe, as well as the wic-tools
recipe (which did not have a maintainer).

NOTE: this patch is in preparation for removing wic from oe-core
the wic oe-selftests work fine with this patch being added now

Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
---
changes in v9:
- updated SRCREV as required (the standalone wic repository has
different commits)
- updated commit message to indicate the change of maintainership

changes in v8:
- (skipped, the patch to add sector-size cmdline arg was upstreamed)

changes in v7:
- bump SRCREV to include a work-around for wic.Wic2.test_expand_mbr_image
- changelog:
exec_cmd(): allow multiple success codes

changes in v6:
- the SRCREV was updated since any changes/revisions before the removal
need to be reflected in the repository

changes in v5:
- rebase with master
- split patchset back out into smaller patches
- do not add TOPDIR and WIC_SECTOR_SIZE to image_types_wic.bbclass if a
user wants them, they can add them to WICVARS in their config

changes in v4:
- (skipped)

changes in v3:
- squashed into one large patch

changes in v2:
- add wic as a native dependency of the image_types_wic.bbclass
---
meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass | 4 ++--
meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc | 3 ++-
meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb | 1 +
meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb

diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
index aea61d67e3ed..f613c59b2cbc 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/image_types_wic.bbclass
@@ -111,14 +111,14 @@ do_image_wic[cleandirs] = "${WORKDIR}/build-wic"
USING_WIC = "${@bb.utils.contains_any('IMAGE_FSTYPES', 'wic ' + ' '.join('wic.%s' % c for c in '${CONVERSIONTYPES}'.split()), '1', '', d)}"
WKS_FILE_CHECKSUM = "${@wks_checksums(d.getVar('WKS_FILES').split(), d.getVar('WKS_SEARCH_PATH')) if '${USING_WIC}' else ''}"
do_image_wic[file-checksums] += "${WKS_FILE_CHECKSUM}"
-do_image_wic[depends] += "${@' '.join('%s-native:do_populate_sysroot' % r for r in ('parted', 'gptfdisk', 'dosfstools', 'mtools'))}"
+do_image_wic[depends] += "${@' '.join('%s-native:do_populate_sysroot' % r for r in ('wic', 'parted', 'gptfdisk', 'dosfstools', 'mtools'))}"

# We ensure all artfacts are deployed (e.g virtual/bootloader)
do_image_wic[recrdeptask] += "do_deploy"
do_image_wic[deptask] += "do_image_complete"

WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT = '${@bb.utils.contains_any("BUILD_ARCH", [ 'x86_64', 'i686' ], "syslinux-native", "",d)}'
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT += "bmaptool-native cdrtools-native btrfs-tools-native squashfs-tools-native e2fsprogs-native erofs-utils-native"
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT += "wic-native bmaptool-native cdrtools-native btrfs-tools-native squashfs-tools-native e2fsprogs-native erofs-utils-native"
# Unified kernel images need objcopy
WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_DEFAULT += "virtual/cross-binutils"
WKS_FILE_DEPENDS_BOOTLOADERS = ""
diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 1bd43211e23d..567cd98580d0 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -892,7 +892,8 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-weston = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-weston-init = "Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wget = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-which = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
-RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wic-tools = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wic = "Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wic-tools = "Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wireless-regdb = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wpa-supplicant = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-wpebackend-fdo = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb b/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
index fa983ed5f12c..45fb873dd6bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.bb
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ SUMMARY = "A meta recipe to build native tools used by wic."
LICENSE = "MIT"

DEPENDS = "\
+ wic-native \
parted-native gptfdisk-native dosfstools-native \
mtools-native bmaptool-native grub-native cdrtools-native \
btrfs-tools-native squashfs-tools-native pseudo-native \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b98408702300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+SUMMARY = "OpenEmbedded Image Creator (wic) standalone CLI"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://git.yoctoproject.org/wic"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=4ee23c52855c222cba72583d301d2338"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/wic.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
+SRCREV = "79e2b06a1f9c97decdaf44f0806dbf3cc1e86bf9"
+
+inherit python_hatchling
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
+ python3-core \
+ python3-json \
+ python3-logging \
+ python3-misc \
+ "
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
--
2.51.0