Support tarballs OTA images
agners opened this issue · 4 comments
To integrate meta-updater with a custom installation systems we need a tarball of the updateable ostree tree. Currently image_types_ota creates ext4 images only. The class should be extended to support tar. Maybe the generation and naming of the image formats should be hierarchical, e.g. otaimg.ext4/otaimg.tar...
It should be possible to do that, maybe as some kind of optional step, because we don't want to generate multiple images for everyone. A hack in image_types_ota that just checked a flag and created the image if necessary would be simple, but perhaps not ideal.
I would suggest to just create a new image type (otaimg.tar) and then move most of the functionality currently in IMAGE_CMD_otaimg into a common function. Then IMAGE_CMD_otaimg ends up calling this function and creating the ext4 fs, and IMAGE_CMD_otaimg.tar the same but creating the tarball in the end...
@agners Can I close this since the PR was merged and it looks like your needs have been met? Or is there something more related to this that I've overlooked?
Our needs have been met with that PR merged! You can close this issue. Thanks!