[OE-core] [PATCH v1 1/1] image_types: add base64 conversion
S. Fricke
silvio.fricke at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 12:14:17 UTC 2019
Hi,
> Is it? I'm genuinely curious when a base64 encoded image is useful.
It is! :-)
We are using a softwarestack which use base64 (I am delighted thats no one is
using uuencode ^^) encoded images to transfer them via wire. I can not change
this stack.
If this isn't useful, maybe you can help me to get a own conversion cmd into
my own bbclasses? I have tried it in several ways, but nothing worked. The
last approach was to change the image_type.bbclass.
TIA,
Silvio
> Ross
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 06:03, Silvio Fricke <[1]silvio.fricke at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Sometimes it is useful to have a base64 representation of an image.
>
> Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <[2]silvio.fricke at gmail.com>
> ---
> meta/classes/image_types.bbclass | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> index 70bd315306..ddca5b624e 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ IMAGE_TYPES = " \
> # CONVERSION_CMD/DEPENDS.
> COMPRESSIONTYPES ?= ""
>
> -CONVERSIONTYPES = "gz bz2 lzma xz lz4 lzo zip sum md5sum sha1sum
> sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum bmap u-boot vmdk vdi qcow2
> ${COMPRESSIONTYPES}"
> +CONVERSIONTYPES = "gz bz2 lzma xz lz4 lzo zip sum md5sum sha1sum
> sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum bmap u-boot vmdk vdi qcow2
> base64 ${COMPRESSIONTYPES}"
> CONVERSION_CMD_lzma = "lzma -k -f -7
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}"
> CONVERSION_CMD_gz = "pigz -f -9 -n -c
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} >
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.gz"
> CONVERSION_CMD_bz2 = "pbzip2 -f -k
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}"
> @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ CONVERSION_CMD_u-boot = "mkimage -A ${UBOOT_ARCH} -O
> linux -T ramdisk -C none -n
> CONVERSION_CMD_vmdk = "qemu-img convert -O vmdk
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.vmdk"
> CONVERSION_CMD_vdi = "qemu-img convert -O vdi
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.vdi"
> CONVERSION_CMD_qcow2 = "qemu-img convert -O qcow2
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.qcow2"
> +CONVERSION_CMD_base64 = "base64
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} >
> ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.base64"
> CONVERSION_DEPENDS_lzma = "xz-native"
> CONVERSION_DEPENDS_gz = "pigz-native"
> CONVERSION_DEPENDS_bz2 = "pbzip2-native"
> @@ -313,6 +314,7 @@ CONVERSION_DEPENDS_u-boot = "u-boot-tools-native"
> CONVERSION_DEPENDS_vmdk = "qemu-native"
> CONVERSION_DEPENDS_vdi = "qemu-native"
> CONVERSION_DEPENDS_qcow2 = "qemu-native"
> +CONVERSION_DEPENDS_base64 = "coreutils-native"
>
> RUNNABLE_IMAGE_TYPES ?= "ext2 ext3 ext4"
> RUNNABLE_MACHINE_PATTERNS ?= "qemu"
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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