[Buildroot] [[PATCH v2 03/14] package/mender: create directory structures required by the Mender client

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:09:03 +0200, Mirza Krak wrote:
> /uboot is a mount point for vfat boot partition.
> /data is a mount point for the persistent data partition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at northern.tech>
> ---
>  package/mender/mender.mk | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/package/mender/mender.mk b/package/mender/mender.mk
> index deab0cb039..71f92ce048 100644
> --- a/package/mender/mender.mk
> +++ b/package/mender/mender.mk
> @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ MENDER_VERSION = 1.4.0
>  MENDER_SITE = $(call github,mendersoftware,mender,$(MENDER_VERSION))
>  
>  define MENDER_INSTALL_CONFIG_FILES
> +	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(TARGET_DIR)/data/mender
> +	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(TARGET_DIR)/data/uboot
> +	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(TARGET_DIR)/uboot

I am sorry, but despite the explanations, I still don't understand why
these *must* be /data and /uboot. Is Mender *enforcing* those locations
exactly ?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com