[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] wic: When using --use-uuid make sure that we update the fstab with PARTUUID

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Sep 21 21:19:50 UTC 2017


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 06:15:56PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > When we have been told to use the UUID we should also update the fstab
> > to make use of PARTUUID instead of hard-coding the device in question.
> > This will make the resulting image much more portable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> 
> Adding more features which changes the fstab goes to the opposite
> direction of reproducible builds; is it desirable?

UUIDs are already something that would be different every time.  It's
also (at least with just this patch) opt-in.  The second patch shows
that it's quite useful (and there's real-world examples, ie Minnow SD
card vs USB/SATA, various ARM systems where mmcblkX can change depending
on regulators.

-- 
Tom
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