Include arbitrary files in the bundle

[rauc]

Include arbitrary files in the bundle

[ejoerns]

Well, we definitely require such a feature somehow, especially as I also intend to support providing the manifest as a file via SRC_URI. This would require specifying all required deploy artifacts manually.

But in addition to files form the bundle dir we will also have to include files provided by the recipe source folder, e.g. if you add a RAUC hook script or something similar.

I am not sure yet how to do this and how to combine this. At least with the latest patches applied, I've re-enabled the possibility to user the normal bitbake fetching logic. I quick guess was automatically adding an ;unpack=bundle/ to the SRC_URI entries to automate adding ressources via SRC_URI. Could be combined with an approach like the one you proposed for the artifacts from deploy folder.

If you got a useful approach, feel free to post it and we can discuss it.

[ilkondr]

As far as I can understand, this can be addressed by #53

[ejoerns]

I came around this issue again as I wanted to remove a project-specific hack for this exact issue.

I've had again a look into #53. I basically understand the idea of using a similar description and automation as we already have for the slot handling, but I find the syntax a little to heavy (as I find the slot syntax a little heavy, too, when moving away from the straight and simple cases).

Thus I've now prepared #102 that proposes a much simpler solution. The only drawback is that one needs to take care of adding both dependencies and filenames for the artifacts, but with this it is only one- or two-liner.