<div dir="ltr">Is it?  I&#39;m genuinely curious when a base64 encoded image is useful. <div><br></div><div>Ross</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 06:03, Silvio Fricke &lt;<a href="mailto:silvio.fricke@gmail.com">silvio.fricke@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sometimes it is useful to have a base64 representation of an image.<br>
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Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke &lt;<a href="mailto:silvio.fricke@gmail.com" target="_blank">silvio.fricke@gmail.com</a>&gt;<br>
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 meta/classes/image_types.bbclass | 4 +++-<br>
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)<br>
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diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass<br>
index 70bd315306..ddca5b624e 100644<br>
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass<br>
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass<br>
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ IMAGE_TYPES = &quot; \<br>
 # CONVERSION_CMD/DEPENDS.<br>
 COMPRESSIONTYPES ?= &quot;&quot;<br>
<br>
-CONVERSIONTYPES = &quot;gz bz2 lzma xz lz4 lzo zip sum md5sum sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum bmap u-boot vmdk vdi qcow2 ${COMPRESSIONTYPES}&quot;<br>
+CONVERSIONTYPES = &quot;gz bz2 lzma xz lz4 lzo zip sum md5sum sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum bmap u-boot vmdk vdi qcow2 base64 ${COMPRESSIONTYPES}&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_CMD_lzma = &quot;lzma -k -f -7 ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_CMD_gz = &quot;pigz -f -9 -n -c ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} &gt; ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.gz&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_CMD_bz2 = &quot;pbzip2 -f -k ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}&quot;<br>
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ CONVERSION_CMD_u-boot = &quot;mkimage -A ${UBOOT_ARCH} -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -n<br>
 CONVERSION_CMD_vmdk = &quot;qemu-img convert -O vmdk ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.vmdk&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_CMD_vdi = &quot;qemu-img convert -O vdi ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.vdi&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_CMD_qcow2 = &quot;qemu-img convert -O qcow2 ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.qcow2&quot;<br>
+CONVERSION_CMD_base64 = &quot;base64 ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type} &gt; ${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.${type}.base64&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_DEPENDS_lzma = &quot;xz-native&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_DEPENDS_gz = &quot;pigz-native&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_DEPENDS_bz2 = &quot;pbzip2-native&quot;<br>
@@ -313,6 +314,7 @@ CONVERSION_DEPENDS_u-boot = &quot;u-boot-tools-native&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_DEPENDS_vmdk = &quot;qemu-native&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_DEPENDS_vdi = &quot;qemu-native&quot;<br>
 CONVERSION_DEPENDS_qcow2 = &quot;qemu-native&quot;<br>
+CONVERSION_DEPENDS_base64 = &quot;coreutils-native&quot;<br>
<br>
 RUNNABLE_IMAGE_TYPES ?= &quot;ext2 ext3 ext4&quot;<br>
 RUNNABLE_MACHINE_PATTERNS ?= &quot;qemu&quot;<br>
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2.20.1<br>
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