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bsp: auto-initialise storage on deploy, clearer error otherwise #296

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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion build/meta-bsp/classes/bsp.bbclass
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Expand Up @@ -176,7 +176,13 @@ addtask do_deploy_boot_chain before do_deploy
def __do_deploy_boot(d):

if d.getVar('IB_STORAGE_MODE') not in ("remote", "http"):
bb.warn("Now mounting")
# Make deploy depend on an initialised storage. In "soft" mode this
# creates sdcard.img.<platform> on the fly when it is missing (the
# same work as scripts/init_storage.sh), so a fresh tree can deploy
# without a separate manual init step. deploy.sh already opened a
# sudo session, so the losetup/mkfs done here via `sudo -n` succeeds.
__do_fs_check(d)
bb.plain("Mounting storage")
__do_fs_mount(d)

__do_platform_deploy(d)
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion build/meta-filesystem/classes/fs_arm_common.bbclass
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Expand Up @@ -169,7 +169,13 @@ def __do_fs_mount(d):
os.stat(img_path)
except OSError as e:
if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
bb.fatal(f"{img_path} does not exist")
bb.fatal(
f"Storage image '{img_path}' does not exist: the filesystem "
f"for platform '{IB_PLATFORM}' has not been initialised yet.\n"
f"Deploy normally creates it automatically; if you reach this, "
f"initialise the storage explicitly by running:\n"
f" ./scripts/init_storage.sh\n"
f"then run the deploy again.")

p1 = os.path.join(WORKDIR, "p1")
p2 = os.path.join(WORKDIR, "p2")
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