[Buildroot] [[PATCH v2 05/14] package/mender: symlink /var/lib/mender -> /data/mender

Mirza Krak mirza.krak at northern.tech
Mon Aug 20 13:09:05 UTC 2018


The Mender client will use /var/lib/mender to access the persistent data
partition and expect the link to be in place.

By default it points to /data, but this can easily be overriden by
overriding the link in overlay_fs

Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at northern.tech>
---
 package/mender/mender.mk | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/mender/mender.mk b/package/mender/mender.mk
index acf50e0092..eb718ebc02 100644
--- a/package/mender/mender.mk
+++ b/package/mender/mender.mk
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ define MENDER_INSTALL_CONFIG_FILES
 		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/mender/inventory/mender-inventory-network
 	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 package/mender/mender-inventory-hostinfo \
 		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/mender/inventory/mender-inventory-hostinfo
+
+	ln -sf /data/mender $(TARGET_DIR)/var/lib/mender
 endef
 
 MENDER_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += MENDER_INSTALL_CONFIG_FILES
-- 
2.11.0




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