[OE-core] [PATCH] e2fsprogs: install populate-extfs.sh

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 22:03:26 UTC 2015


We still have some functions which use populate-extfs.sh to create some
ext4 partitions, eventually we should move to mkfs.ext as well, but as long
as it's included in e3fsprogs it makes the migration to newer oe-core
easier.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 00:46 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > * install populate-extfs.sh from contrib, be aware that in order
> >   to use it you need to set DEBUGFS shell variable, otherwise it will
> >   try to use debugfs from relative path which is almost always
> >   incorrect:
> >     CONTRIB_DIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
> >     DEBUGFS="$CONTRIB_DIR/../debugfs/debugfs"
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.42.9.bb | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Do we need this now we have support proper in mkfs.ext for populating
> root filesystems?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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