On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Ed Bartosh <ed.bart...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 09:00:50AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> wrote: >> > On 04/04/2015 10:20 AM, Ed Bartosh wrote: >> >> wic requires tools that are not always possible to find in $PATH. >> >> This causes wic to fail with confusing errors like this: >> >> External command 'parted' not found, exiting. >> >> (Please install 'parted' on your host system) >> >> >> >> Adding ~/bin/, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, >> >> /sbin and /bin to the list of paths makes find_binary_path to >> >> produce more reliable results. >> > >> > I'm with Otavio. Given wic is intimately dependent on internal build >> > artifacts, it should use utilities from the sysroot and not depend on >> > tools from the path. Let's make wic 100% before creating a tool to build >> > images from packages. >> >> If we want to have it as a 'standalone' tool we will need to somehow >> package the tool set for it to use, otherwise we have a maintenance >> nightmare (does patch X has been applied to Parted?). >> > Can you elaborate a bit on how tool set can be packaged?
We could do a tarball like the buildtools toolchain. > Back to the original topic. wic never used native parted as it's not > useable(there is no executable in systoor). > Anybody knows the reason? bitbake parted-native > Documentation also suggests to install parted on the host: > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#wic-requirements So it also needs fixing. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core