[OE-core] [PATCH v1 1/1] image_types: add base64 conversion

[Burton, Ross]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 12:14, S. Fricke <silvio.fricke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ah, fair enough.  Yes in that case I guess that it's not uu is good :)


> 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.


It's very low-impact so I don't object to this in oe-core.

Ross
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