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* [PATCH v10 0/3] pkg-database and systemd-sysext image
@ 2024-05-22 14:11 Johannes Schneider
  2024-05-22 14:11 ` [PATCH v10 1/3] image.bbclass/rootfs: archive and deploy package database Johannes Schneider
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From: Johannes Schneider @ 2024-05-22 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-core, richard.purdie, alex.kanavin,
	alexandre.belloni
  Cc: Johannes Schneider

systemd-sysext allows to overlay another image (or multiple) ontop of
a "base-image" = the current rootfs, via the use of overlayfs; to add
tools and features meant for development purposes.

To quote the documentation on systemd-sysext:
" ...addition in order to make debugging/development easier). System
extension images should not be misunderstood as a generic software
packaging framework, ..."

To build a lean image, that only holds packages that are not already
part of the base-image, a snapshot of the package-database is taken
after the installation of the base-rootfs is done, and picked up again
when collecting the rootfs of such a extension image.

with all this in place an example usage could look like this:
some-core-image.bb
  inherit core-image
  IMAGE_GEN_PKGDBFS = "1"

extending-image.bb
  inherit image-sysext
  IMAGE_FSTYPES = "squashfs"
  IMAGE_BASE_PKGDB = "some-core-image"
  # the above pointing at a package-db similar to:
  # build/deploy/images/$MACHINE/some-core-image-$MACHINE-20240210172305-pkgdb.rootfs.tar.gz

then on the device, running some-core-image, with the extension image placed at FN:
$> ln -s "$FN" /run/extensions/$(basename $FN).raw
$> systemd-sysext list
$> SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-sysext merge

As long as the VERSION_ID of the extension image matches the os-release
in the base image, the above commands return sucessfully;
for details on the compativility check see the docs for systemd-sysext.

=========

changes with v2:
        rebase from 'kirkstone' onto 'master'

changes with v3:
	incorporate review suggestions for simplification
	add task dependency handling
	add oe-selftest for the pkgdb handling
	add variable documentation and
	some more comments, and examples in the commit-msg

changes with v4:
	rebase onto 'master' => no functional changes
	fixed patchtest findings

changes with v5:
        rebase onto 'master'
	add '.sysext' to the deployed symlink name
        sidenote on the tests and autobuilder failure: run locally they succeed, e.g.:
          #> oe-selftest --verbose -r imagefeatures.ImageFeatures.test_image_gen_pkgdbfs

changes with v6:
	tests: restructure to call 'bitbake' only once in the testcase itself
	  (in hopes of solving the autobuilder problem; local test runs succeed)

changes with v7:
        tests: undo the restructuring of done in v6, in favour of explicitly forcing steps:
	  '-c rootfs -f'.  since concurrency of the autobuilder, and reusing artifacts/sstate-caching is probably the issue?

changes with v8:
        tests: fixed missing feature=PACKAGE_CLASSES during 'test_image_gen_pkgdbfs'
	   which is now split into three, one for each of the three available packagemanager: ipk, deb, rpm
	   
changes with v9:
	tests: fix singular failure in 'oe-selftest-armhost'
	   which was due to the built image not containing a 'kernel-image...', which the gen-pkgdb sanity
	   check expected, but 'packagegroup-core-boot' instead

changes with v10:
	tests: fix runCmd usage in relation to native-dirs
	   due to which only the use-pkgdbfs-ipk test would fail in a qemu run armhost environment


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2024-05-22 14:11 ` [PATCH v10 2/3] image.bbclass/rootfs: set and unpack package-database Johannes Schneider
2024-05-22 14:11 ` [PATCH v10 3/3] classes: add a systemd-sysext image class Johannes Schneider
2024-05-29 10:34 ` [OE-core] [PATCH v10 0/3] pkg-database and systemd-sysext image Alexandre Belloni
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