As the mender_x86_64_efi_defconfig does not build the xz package, creating a
boostrap image with a lzma compression results in the following error on boot:
```
Error while handling bootstrap Artifact, continuing: invalid bootstrap
Artifact: readHeaderV3: handleHeaderReads: readHeader: readNext: Failed to get
next header: reader: error reading archive: unexpected EOF
```
This also results in the same error for the generated mender image, as it's
also created with lzma compression unconditionally.
Set the compression to none to resolve the above error.
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Currently, the post-build.sh script adds device_type to /var/lib/mender,
however, this doesn't work for two reasons:
1) /data/ mounts to /var/lib/mender
2) The device_type location in mender.conf points to /etc/mender/device_type.
This leads to an error during the bootstrap process because mender reads the
default device_type file installed by mender.mk in /etc/mender, leading to the
following error:
```
Error while handling bootstrap Artifact, continuing: invalid bootstrap
Artifact: readHeaderV3: handleHeaderReads: image
(device types [buildroot-x86_64]) not compatible with device BUILDROOT_DEVICE
```
Set the creation of the device_type file in board/mender/x86_64/post-build.sh
to /etc/mender/device_type to fix the error.
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
and fix dd of=sdc because it is very dangerous to have exiting drive in example
Signed-off-by: Cherniaev Andrei <dungeonlords789@naver.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Updating directly to 4.x is too difficult and complex, as mender 4.x is
a complete rewrite in C++, with several new dependencies and changes.
As such, update to the last version that was written in Go, which is
3.5.3. The following changes are necessary:
The artifact_info file is no longer supported. Instead, mender now expects a
bootstrap.mender artifact created by mender-artifact /var/lib/mender.
See the following for more information:
https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/MEN-2585https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/MEN-2583https://docs.mender.io/release-information/release-notes-changelog/mender-client#mender-3-5-0-1https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender/blob/3.5.3/Documentation/automatic-bootstrap-artifact.md
- Remove all instances of creating or copying an artifact_info file
from board examples and package/mender.
- Add a generate_mender_bootstrap_artifact method to
board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh which creates a proper
bootstrap.mender file and places it in the data partition.
- Add a post-build.sh script to support/testing/tests/package/test_mender
with the same generate_mender_bootstrap_artifact method with one change:
As the rootfs.ext4 file is not yet created; we omit the optional
--provides "rootfs-image.checksum:${img_checksum}" argument when
generating the bootstrap.mender file.
Mender expects the device_type file to exist in /var/lib/mender/device_type.
This is further supported by the following line in tests/Dockerfile.daemon:
`echo device_type=docker-client > /var/lib/mender/device_type`
Add a migration section in docs/manual/migrating.adoc
Update the package/mender/readme.txt to include a quick mention of the
bootstrap.mender artifact change.
License changes:
New:
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/internal/snapref/LICENSE (BSD-3-Clause)
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd/internal/xxhash/LICENSE.txt (MIT)
Removed:
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/internal/snapref/LICENSE
vendor/github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd/internal/xxhash/LICENSE.txt
Modified:
LICENSE: Update year from 2022 to 2024
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256: Sum of all Licenses changed
vendor/github.com/mendersoftware/mender-artifact/LICENSE
- Update year from 2022 to 2023
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
[Arnout:
- fix LIC_FILES_CHKSUM.sha256 hash
- Better URL for bootstrap artifact doc
- Migrate to 2025.02 instead of 2024.11
- Improve migrating text (editorial changes)
]
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
The logic behind making /var/lib/mender a symlink to itself is to
detect if a filesystem is read-only. However, this creates a few problems:
1) The logic confusing.
2) The official mender documentation suggests four partitions minimum:
- boot
- rootfs A
- rootfs B
- data
If a user is to follow the official documentation, which they should,
then there is no need for any additional logic for a system setup with
a read-only filesystem, as the data partition is always read-write.
3) The post-build.sh script in the board/mender/x86_64 directory removes
the symlink.
- Remove symlinking /var/lib/mender to itself
- Remove the difficult to understand logic dealing with the symlinks
in S42mender, mender-client.service.
- Remove the logic dealing with the symlink in
board/mender/x86_64/post-build.sh
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Put the write rootfs-image argument before the compression argument.
This change makes the logic easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
mender_x86_64_efi_defconfig started failing to build since 2024.08 in
our Gitlab-ci since the board/mender/x86_64/post-image-efi.sh is
calling support/scripts/genimage.sh with the host default shell.
There is no problem if the default shell is bash but our docker
image uses dash as default shell. Since support/scripts/genimage.sh
is actually a bash script it's not going to work if bashisms are used:
support/scripts/genimage.sh: 57: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
Indeed bashisms have been added recently in
support/scripts/genimage.sh by the commit introducing bmap image
support [1].
Remove "sh" before support/scripts/genimage.sh and rely on
"/usr/bin/env bash" to find the bash interpreter.
Fixes:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/8233226891
[1] 6889056f1e
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
mender-grubenv no longer uses the mender_grubenv* directories, instead opting
to put the mender_grubenv directories in a grub-mender-grubenv top-level
directory. While there is a legacy install mode which keeps the two separate
directories, it is better to move forward and rip the bandaid off before it
becomes too painful to update in the future if the legacy option is removed
entirely.
- Update the license file sha256 sum due to a year change.
- mender-grubenv no longer installs grub.cfg, so mender_grub.cfg must be copied
manually to grub.cfg.
- BOOT_DIR replaces ENV_DIR in the Makefile.
- The sleep grub2 module is now a requirement.
- /etc/mender_grubenv.config file must be present on the system for the
grub-mender-grubenv-{print,set} scripts to work properly.
In addition to the above changes, update the mender example board file to work
with the updated mender-grubenv version.
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Buildroot currently has all of the needed packages to use Mender as the primary
update system. However, there isn't any documentation or examples now that
provide a starting point for users. This lack of documentation makes setting up
a Mender based update system difficult and time-consuming.
Provided in this patch series is a mender_x86_64_efi_defconfig of which sets up
an x86_64 EFI based build that is ready to flash to a USB pen drive or use in a
QEMU environment. The system partition schema comprises of two equally sized
root partitions and a data partition that mounts to /var/lib/mender as a
persistent data store partition.
There is a board/mender/readme.txt provided, which gives users documentation on
how to flash the built image or boot the image using QEMU as well.
The post-build and post-image-efi scripts also have four options:
-a --artifact-name:
- The name of the artifact, this is added to /etc/mender/artifact_info
-o --data-part-size:
- The data partition size.
-d --device-type
- The device-type used by mender to catagorize registered devices.
Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikael Bourhis-Cloarec <mikael.bourhis@smile.fr>
[Romain: rebase on master (01.2022)
- update genimage-efi.cfg to use GPT partition table and genimage-15 syntax
- bump the kernel to 5.15.13
- Add host-libelf kernel dependency
- Use BR2_TARGET_GRUB2_BUILTIN_MODULES_EFI after commit 82d1e8c628
(boot/grub2: use none platform when building for host)
- Add regexp grub mandatory module for mender-grubenv
- remove startup.nsh from genimage-efi.cfg after commit 3efb5e31fc
(board, boot, package: remove usage of startup.nsh in EFI partition)]
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
[Arnout:
- abbreviate sizes and partition uuids, remove implicit ones in genimage.cfg
- change data partition uuid to Linux (instead of x86_64 rootfs)
- fix whitespace and shellcheck errors in scripts
- remove --generate-mender-image option, always create it
- remove empty directory and -O ^64bit when creating data fs
- remove redundant e2fsck
- add -serial stdio option to qemu call
- update kernel to current stable 5.18.14
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
