The goals of the re-write was to achieve the following:
1. It should be easy to extend the tool to support other boards or distributions
2. We should not compile code in the tool (rely on binaries built elsewhere)
compiling code increases complexity, due to requirement of toolchains etc.
3. The tool shall not be designed around specific hardware/platform types
- This is the case today with the usage of --device-type flag
4 The tool should be to convert images without knowing anything about the hardware/platform
relates to above 3.
5. Configuration interface should be simplified
- command line flags -> configuration files
6. Platform specific code shall be provided trough “hooks”, and are not part of the “core” mender-convert code
7. It shall be easy to extend functionality
- support for rootfs overlay to inject user applications/configurations
- ability to override how the Mender Artifact is generated (to be able to sign and include state-scripts)
8. Code structure should be modular
- Eases Maintenance and possibility of making isolated changes
Changelog: Title
Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak@northern.tech>
To get rid of such errors/warnings as:
- mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
- mount: ... WARNING: device write-protected, mounted read-only
access to host's kernel modules must be added.
Changelog: Title
Issues: MEN-2255
Signed-off-by: Adam Podogrocki <a.podogrocki@gmail.com>
This ensures we use same version of mender-convert inside
the container as the one used to launch the container.
It makes versioning and local development easier.
Changelog: Use local (checked out) version of mender-convert inside container
Signed-off-by: Eystein Måløy Stenberg <eystein.maloy.stenberg@northern.tech>
consistent and align with entry-point way of running mender-convert.
Changelog: None
Signed-off-by: Eystein Måløy Stenberg <eystein.maloy.stenberg@northern.tech>
It builds for both RPi3 and BBB, but there is a mount
warning for BBB, which may lead to it not working properly.
Changelog: Docker environment for running mender-convert
Signed-off-by: Eystein Måløy Stenberg <eystein.maloy.stenberg@northern.tech>
Mirza Krak
Adam Podogrocki
Max Bruckner
Eystein Måløy Stenberg