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author | Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> | 2016-03-07 15:51:14 +0100 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-03-09 16:36:31 +0000 |
commit | 588f14370372a66329b54606071175519ce88f1e (patch) | |
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image.bbclass: support chaining compression (aka conversion) commands
It makes sense to use the compression mechanism also for conversion,
for example of a whole-disk image into .vdi (VirtualBox). That part
already works, like this:
COMPRESSIONTYPES_append = " vdi"
COMPRESS_CMD_vdi = "qemu-img convert -O vdi ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.vdi"
IMAGE_DEPENDS_vdi = "qemu-native"
But then it also makes sense to allow compressing the resulting image,
which only works after enhancing the image.bbclass.
For example, suppose a custom image command produces "dsk" images. Then
it becomes possible to set
IMAGE_FSTYPES = " dsk.xz dsk.vdi.xz"
and do_image_dsk will automatically produce the intermediate images,
convert to dsk.xz resp. dsk.vdi -> dsk.vdi.xz and delete all
intermediate images. Symlinks are also set correctly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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