[oe] S98configure role

[Hauser, Wolfgang (external)]

Hello,

for me the S98configure is a NO GO !
I have to provide read only images that have to be used w/o any first boot configurations.

For me there is no necessary to final install a image at first boot.

Normally all configurations are able to be done at image creation time by some scripting. 
For example, adding a user can be done by scripting, and not necessarily have to be done by adduser/addgroup.

Its up to the recipes to create packages which are installable offline totally and completely.

Handling of individual settings like serial numbers, keys ... for me should not be a matter of first boot.
It may be a matter of flashing(environment partition) or special configuration partitions.

There may be some cases, a first boot installation is necessary, but for me it is better to have an unmodified/unmodifieable image on the target.

Regards
Wolfgang

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Von: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] Im Auftrag von Chris Larson
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2010 16:02
An: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
Betreff: Re: [oe] S98configure role

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 AM, l.bolognini at tiscali.it <
l.bolognini at tiscali.it> wrote:

> I'm wondering what is the role of this script, placed in /etc/rcS.d.
>
> What I guess is that, for some reasons, some packages get installed but
> not configured (then unpacked) since their postinstall script returns
> non zero value.
>

Yes, this is correct.  Some postinsts do things which can be done at image
creation time on the build machine, but not all.  Those which must *run* the
binaries in the filesystem, for example, cannot be run at build time, so
must be run at first boot time on the target.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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