[OE-core] [PATCH V5 0/4] read-only rootfs support

[Qi.Chen at windriver.com]

From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>

The series of patches add support to read-only rootfs.

The main idea is to use symbolic links to create the illuion that some
directories are writable in case of a read-only rootfs.

This set of patches have been tested on minimal images with and without
'read-only-rootfs' image feature enabled. Everything is OK.

For sato images, everything is the same as before if 'read-only-rootfs' is not enabled.
With 'read-only-rootfs' enabled, sato image could work if graphic interface is diabled.
When all postinstall problems are resolved, sato image should work well (maybe with some
small changes in volatiles-readonly-sato conf file).

Changes for Version 4:
1) Improve the commit messages to be clearer.
2) Use 'sed -i' to replace 'sed' and 'mv' operations to cut down the exec overhead.

Changes for Version 5:
Fix the problem of failing to build the live images

The following changes since commit 90c0eb29f0b41e4ac2d3d17ebad7295c2ebdc02a:

  rootfs_rpm.bbclass: remove debug code (2012-12-19 21:43:55 +0000)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib ChenQi/readonly-rootfs
  http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/readonly-rootfs

Chen Qi (4):
  sysvinit: add ROOTFS_READ_ONLY variable to rcS-default
  image.bbclass: add two hook funtions to support read-only rootfs
  core-image.bbclass: support read-only-rootfs image feature
  initscripts: support read-only rootfs

 meta/classes/core-image.bbclass                    |    7 +-
 meta/classes/image.bbclass                         |   29 ++
 .../initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh        |    9 +-
 .../initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh           |  281 ++++++++++----------
 .../initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles          |    1 +
 .../initscripts-1.0/volatiles-readonly-minimal     |    8 +
 .../initscripts-1.0/volatiles-readonly-sato        |   14 +
 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb   |   11 +-
 meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/rcS-default    |    4 +
 meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf.bb     |    2 +-
 10 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles-readonly-minimal
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/volatiles-readonly-sato

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