[Buildroot] [RFC 4/4] board/acmesystems/aria-g25: set BR2_GENIMAGE_CFG_FILES

[Andreas Naumann]

Hi Phelip,

Am 31.03.2017 um 00:51 schrieb Arnout Vandecappelle:
>
>  I'm still not entirely sure if this new option is worthwhile. Without it, you
> would instead need
>
> BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
> BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="board/acmesystems/aria-g25/genimage.cfg"
>
> Not really complicated either... The only real advantage I see is that it
> motivates people more to use genimage (which is otherwise a bit hidden). But for
> that, a paragraph or two in docs/manual/customize-post-image.txt would also
> work. By the way, even for this series an explanation of the option would be
> required in that file.
>
>  What do the others think?

I have a slightly different use case than most genimage configs in 
buildroot right now. This is, I use genimage's ability to split my 
customized rootfs into multiple filesystems in order to give them them 
ro/writeable and other capabilities as appropriate.
Thus to preserve ownership and such I need to run genimage under 
fakeroot. Currently I do this explicitely in a post image script. An 
improvement I think about is switching to using the post fakeroot 
integration which buildroot provides since a while.

So unless this becomes some kind of option, your proposed change 
probably wouldnt work for me.

What I was thinking about in the past would be a deeper integration of 
genimage in buildroots filesystem configuration, actually generating the 
genimage config. But so far it was not worth the effort for me.


regards,
Andreas

>
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>