This speeds up the conversion quite a lot, meaning that it will skip
copying large blocks of 'zero' data back and forth.
Converting a 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-lite.img went from 8m10s to
4m45s on my machine.
Changelog: None
Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak@northern.tech>
Only crucial information is presented to the user as
console output.
More verbose information is stored in the build.log.
Issues: MEN-2172
Changelog: None
Signed-off-by: Adam Podogrocki <a.podogrocki@gmail.com>
Succeeding conversion steps added. Some commands' output silenced.
Still too much output logged from e.g. autotools.
Logging more verbose info to log file still missing.
Issues: MEN-2172
Changelog: None
Signed-off-by: Adam Podogrocki <a.podogrocki@gmail.com>
mender-conversion-tool with add-on scripts allow user to:
- shrink an existing embedded Linux image (shorter time of building final .sdimg raw disk image)
- restructure partition table of an existing embedded Linux image to follow Mender layout
- install Mender client related files
- install Grub related files for platforms supporting it
- patch U-Boot for platforms where Grub integration is not feasible (e.g. Raspbian)
- create Mender artifact based on the created .sdimg file
Issues: MEN-1867 / MEN-2037 / MEN-2038 / MEN-2041
Signed-off-by: Adam Podogrocki <a.podogrocki@gmail.com>
Mirza Krak
Adam Podogrocki
apodogrocki